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Reader supplied reviews for Solus
Average rating
8.7 from 277 review(s)
Version: 3
Rating: 10
Date: 2018-06-12
Votes: 8
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I chose Solus because it works very well on simple notebooks today, in fact, current notebooks not those expensive with sophisticated hardware and yes, notebooks common to ordinary people of moderate and low purchasing power. Those who have an old notebook Solus offers the Solus Mate that also works magnificently in modest current notebooks. I've never even had a relevant problem. It works and is good for work and fun. I have Solus installed in new and old notebooks one for each person here at home. I think it's extremely toxic that some people do not understand that Solus is from ordinary people (very clever) to ordinary people who need to do their thing without complications.
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Version: 3
Rating: 3
Date: 2018-06-11
Votes: 0
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Unfortunately NOT stable or for beginners.
PROS:
excellent pressure sensitivity (Ugee 2150 worked within live environment and with Solus installed)
ia32-libs/gaming/playonlinux very well taken care of also
very fast
able to resize desktop icons + use own icons for packages/panel shortcuts.
some clear forum tutorials, but steps missing that someone not terminal savvy really needs.
CONS:
(Epson) printer install difficult (didn't succeed)
The one extra 3rd party repo was offline; had been relieved to see Megasync available there, but unable to connect with the repo. Connection was briefly made, then the repo was said to be unavailable, and things were rolled back.
Software centre behaves oddly; if a program has a number of dependencies, the install will appear to fail, but is installing one dependency/section at a time, and 'install' needs repeating.
Overall updates took a very long time to install.
Had to set up Expressvpn manually, but usual setup resulted in nothing happening except 'fail' message.
Followed instructions on extracting a deb, but didn't work.
Various packages eg Spacefm, not in the repos either.
No right click to open a folder in terminal, which made no sense.
Often unable to get root access, and messages about not allowed access flashed me back to Windows days and wasn't pleasant at all. I did the usual of increasing user permissions, hoping that would fix things, but it didn't.
Rebooted and, out of the blue, password refused. Unable to get into machine, and had to format/return to previous distro. This surprised me all the more because including various packages is refused, due to stability concerns.
A lot of great potential, and finding art and gaming well cared for had been something I was very grateful for, especially regarding being able to use Ugee with Linux, and which is critical to work, but unfortunately too unstable.
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Version: 3
Rating: 9
Date: 2018-06-07
Votes: 3
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Solus works fine and it is the most stable rolling release distribution of Linux that I have tried.
Their version of the MATE desktop environment works like a charm.
It would be nice if they had more software in their software centre. But, it contains everything that would make Solus a productive and an enjoyable desktop experience.
Not bad at all for a distribution of Linux that was built from the ground up.
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