Solus 4.1 Fortitude

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Post by vital » Sat, Jan 25, 2020, 9:30 PM UTC

Re: Solus 4.1 Fortitude

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Post by axaxs » Sat, Jan 25, 2020, 10:13 PM UTC

As a very long time Linux on the desktop user, I absolutely love Solus. I've used about everything, but anymore, I just want something nice and easy for me out of the box. After the Antergos project ended, I decided I wanted something non Arch based, and tried Solus for the heck of it. I liked the default wallpaper, theme, and despite lacking advanced setups, the installer was perfect for my needs. Updates are done once a week, and despite the small team, they really mostly stay on top of things. If you're a distro hopper, or tired of your current one, give it a go.

Re: Solus 4.1 Fortitude

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Post by sansnomme » Sat, Jan 25, 2020, 10:23 PM UTC

Will Ubuntu Budgie be receiving an update too? Or do users have to wait until the next release?

https://ubuntubudgie.org/

Re: Solus 4.1 Fortitude

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Post by ufo » Sat, Jan 25, 2020, 10:24 PM UTC

axaxs wrote: post #2

As a very long time Linux on the desktop user, I absolutely love Solus. I've used about everything, but anymore, I just want something nice and easy for me out of the box. After the Antergos project ended, I decided I wanted something non Arch based, and tried Solus for the heck of it. I liked the default wallpaper, theme, and despite lacking advanced setups, the installer was perfect for my needs. Updates are done o…

Were you drawn to Solus mainly because of Budgie? Or was there something else too?

Re: Solus 4.1 Fortitude

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Post by axaxs » Sat, Jan 25, 2020, 10:33 PM UTC

ufo wrote: post #4

axaxs wrote: post #2

As a very long time Linux on the desktop user, I absolutely love Solus. I've used about everything, but anymore, I just want something nice and easy for me out of the box. After the Antergos project ended, I decided I wanted something non Arch based, and tried Solus for the heck of it. I liked the default wallpaper, theme, and despite lacking advanced setups, the installer was perfect for my needs. Updates are done o…

Were you drawn to Solus mainly because of Budgie? Or was there something else too?

Nope, I don't even use Budgie. Despite my distaste for it, I'm still a Gnome guy. So, I don't remember why I even tried it other than I'd grown tired of Arch based footguns. I wanted rolling release, something easy to install that supported full disk encryption, and a decent amount of stuff via repo. Believe it or not, there's not a lot that ticks all those boxes.

Re: Solus 4.1 Fortitude

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Post by eb0la » Sat, Jan 25, 2020, 10:44 PM UTC

I know this is opensource, but... What if I want to contribute financially to the project ???

I didn't found any 'donate' or 'buy' button.

Hardware costs money, there will be hosting bills to pay, and developers sometimes want to eat.

Re: Solus 4.1 Fortitude

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Post by bilal4hmed » Sat, Jan 25, 2020, 10:49 PM UTC

eb0la wrote: post #6

I know this is opensource, but... What if I want to contribute financially to the project ??? I didn't found any 'donate' or 'buy' button. Hardware costs money, there will be hosting bills to pay, and developers sometimes want to eat.

I found some info here https://getsol.us/2018/11/02/update-on-patreon/

but it seems like there is no way

Re: Solus 4.1 Fortitude

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Post by JamesCoyne » Sat, Jan 25, 2020, 11:02 PM UTC

sansnomme wrote: post #3

Will Ubuntu Budgie be receiving an update too? Or do users have to wait until the next release? https://ubuntubudgie.org/

Ubuntu Budgie updates are not driven by Solus updates. Ubuntu Budgie is independent and downstream from the Budgie project.

Re: Solus 4.1 Fortitude

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Post by coleifer » Sat, Jan 25, 2020, 11:51 PM UTC

Lots of cool stuff has come from this small team. I tried solus a couple years back and liked it but didn't get too deep. I'd like to hear more about why I should use Solus over Debian/arch/whatever. It looks like they have a new kernel and lots of up-to-date packages, but what sets it apart? The package manager? The desktop environment (budgie) is available on other distributions so thats probably not the killer feature.

Who can fill me in?

Re: Solus 4.1 Fortitude

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Post by JamesCoyne » Sun, Jan 26, 2020, 12:54 AM UTC

coleifer wrote: post #9

Lots of cool stuff has come from this small team. I tried solus a couple years back and liked it but didn't get too deep. I'd like to hear more about why I should use Solus over Debian/arch/whatever. It looks like they have a new kernel and lots of up-to-date packages, but what sets it apart? The package manager? The desktop environment (budgie) is available on other distributions so thats probably not the killer fea…

I'll give the sales pitch.

Solus calls itself a curated rolling release. You get a stable, pretty, desktop OS which is continuously updated.

Package manager (eopkg) does what it says on the tin, is not radical or interesting (in my opinion).

Budgie is snappy and clean with a slight Windows aftertaste.

Another plus for Solus is transparent development. Take a look around:

https://dev.getsol.us