Solus

Reader supplied reviews for Solus Average rating 7.2 from 141 review(s) What are your thoughts on Solus? Please include a few pros and a few cons, along with your overall impression of the operating system. Our FAQ page has tips on writing a good mini-review. Version: -- 4.34.14.03.999932017.04.18.01.2.1 Rating:    -- 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 out of 10 Your review (minimum 250 words): Past reviews - sort by: DateVotes Version: 4.3 Rating: 9 Date: 2023-04-22 Votes: 66 Everything was great until the January server crash , now works again with the return of the founder and the Budgie dev back , first update after almost 4 months , awesome . I'm using the main "flavor" with the Budgie DE , it is lightweight and very stable , comparing to other version for example kde or GNOME , i love so much the budgie and i install it on my secondary distro in my pc the Nobara 37 (fedora 37 customized for games) and the budgie their isn't as stable as it is on SOLUS . The main difference vs fedora is the semi-rolling release since it will update weekly and after some internal testing first , for the last 2 years that i have it as my main NEVER had broken after an upgrade (in compare to Arch based distros) Highly recommend it but for newer users i would suggest to wait for a month to be fully distribute any upgrades needed and then do the jump. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 4.3 Rating: 5 Date: 2023-03-30 Votes: 14 RIP Solus... I was very happy with Solus since 2018. Recent catastrophe with leadership has sent this one spiraling downhill. Unfortunately, there has not been an update since January, and the website had an outage that lasted a couple of weeks. Overall, my experience has been great, but with needing to be on an up-to-date machine and no future in sight for this distro, sadly I'm onto the next one. Hope to see this one come back in the near future as the dev has briefly mentioned on Twitter, but even there it seems like it will not be likely. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 4.3 Rating: 2 Date: 2023-03-28 Votes: 0 Please, if you want a distro with up to date packages but stable and with a secure future, just choose openSUSE, Fedora, or Void. While these distros have their flaws, they are more likely to survive and not die out than Solus. Many people in the linux community don't like distros that are backed by a company, but for me it is nice. It allows me not to worry about if my distro is going to malfunction or die just because a few project leaders left. For example, Ubuntu has lost many community members but that does not stop the distro. If you want a community based distro choose Debian, Arch and Void. If a distro has been without any updates for 2 months, then that means it is not reliable. For Solus to get back up, its developers need to Communicate more about what's happening. I mean if the distro is discontinued, tell us. If the infrastructure can't be recovered tell us. We need news about what's happening. There's a reason why distros like openSUSE and Fedora are rising in popularity. Its because they are more communicative and less likely to die. So, in this present day basically, there is no reason to choose Solus over Fedora, openSUSE and Void. The performance of Solus is now present in most other distros out there. And how do you expect new users to use an almost 2 year iso while other beginner distros, like Ubuntu and Linuxmint, have up to date installation images? TLDR: Don't use Solus. Its like flagging a dead horse at the moment. Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 141 reader reviews of Solus...