Solus

Reader supplied reviews for Solus Average rating 8.6 from 302 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: -- 32017.04.18.01.2.1 Rating:    -- 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 out of 10 Comments (maximum 2,048 characters): Past reviews - sort by: DateVotes Version: 3 Rating: 8 Date: 2018-09-19 Votes: 1 Getting Solus installed is easy. Getting re-started after the installation definitely is rough and could sour people on the project. That said, once you do manage to get the ball rolling on Solus, it's a pretty smooth ride. Though the Budgie desktop was fairly heavy on other distros, it's well integrated into Solus. For example, it doesn't have the wandering icon issue that Ubuntu Budgie has. Resource use is fairly low, and on my HP Pavilion, I get pretty good battery life (roughly 4-5 hours with TLP and Powertop). Software choices are decent but limited; if you aren't a power user, then what's offered should suffice. Snap sort of works here (although in the two instances in which I've used it--to add Spotify and Tusk--the software didn't work the second time around). A hint for those of you who wish to use Budgie: What kept the blinking black screen at bay for me was running [sudo eopkg up] in the terminal instead of using the Software Center for the initial upgrades after installation. It's a lengthy process to be sure (nearly a half hour or so), but no blinking screen occurred afterward. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 3 Rating: 1 Date: 2018-09-10 Votes: 0 Can confirm the same, black screen going on and off with a white blinking cursor... Installed on a new 16G USB3 SanDisk ultra flash, worked perfectly first - fast nice and simple desktop. However, ... upon performing updates (long Gb updates... very long updates keeping in mind when the iso was last made) the PC got into lock-screen mode with no line to login and no possible shortcut combination working . Power button helped (after an hour waiting), but I landed at the black screen mentioned. Did the exercise again, reinstalled, updated (3.999, really!?), rebooted at black blinking screen [tried on 2 notebooks everything runs on - older HP with Radeon and newer with Nvidia]. Decided maybe should not waste time for beta OS... here the surprising bonus, the USB flash could not be re-formated, both under linux or windows, with all possible tools tried... likely got overheat with 1 year succession of updates. Now, reading many positive comments below ... a la "nicer, greater, better and even more stable than *Buntu, Mint, Debian etc." wondering ... really, more stable than even Debian!? Rolling, v. 3.999 likely going to be 3.9999x soon, with no iso in view after a year with an excuse "install once roll forever". Ok, maybe for those lucky fellas installed a year ago and rolled .... For me a black screen with a blinking cursor. Anyway, not gonna try Solus till there is an iso. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 3 Rating: 5 Date: 2018-09-09 Votes: 0 Can confirm black screen after update installation. Forums are not friendly, very inactive. Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 302 reader reviews of Solus...