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Reader supplied reviews for Solus
Average rating
8.6 from 356 review(s)
Version: 4.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-03-20
Votes: 0
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Hopped to Solus Budgie from Pop!_OS, zero regrets
Budgie is a superb DE which is minimal and polished like GNOME but also much faster. Default theme looks ok, but there're better IMO, for example, elementary
Solus has a decent amount of software available, though Ubuntu has more. So far I could install everything I needed, and Flatpak support is a big plus too
Rolling release model for me is a good thing too, although there're people who need stable release
This distro is perfect for me and I'd recommend it for everyone, except maybe for science or server guys
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Version: 4.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-03-19
Votes: 1
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This is my first Budgie experience, so I am not sure how much of my review is specific to Solus and not just Budgie itself.
Very impressed. The eopkg manager was a very easy shift from apt. just put the eopkg --help output up on one screen and was able to do everything. Actually I would probably be faster with eopkg than apt if I had as much experience with it.
It is actually a pretty configurable UI. I am used to XFCE, and when I right-clicked on the panel I was worried there was no configurability. Once I figured it out though, I think it is actually a cleaner way of handling things.
Overall it is a very smooth experience. Light enough for speed, yet looks nice. The most impressive part for me is the lack of miniscule glitches. This just hasn't happened to me in any other DE. Slight changes in XFCE or KDE constantly break things or make them act weird. This just feels so much more solid. Although it is at the cost of some configurability, I think I would rather adjust to a stable DE than tweak the hell out of a glitchy interface so it fits my current way of thinking.
Very big fan, going to keep running in a VM for a while looking for issues before wiping out my base MX OS.
May the force be with you
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Version: 4.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-03-18
Votes: 27
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First of all, I am just a common PC user, personal computers were discovered by me quite late in my life, so I don't know how relevant my review will be for this place. (I am also not a native English speaker).
I've decided to switch to Linux in 2016, primarily because of constant file fragmentation and updates clogging my slow internet connection.
I've tried Mint, Manjaro, elementary and different flavors of Ubuntu. My experience with all these distros was very similar. At first everything works great. Then there is an update and something breaks. Something that I can't find how to fix or it ts too difficult for me to fix. Then I switch to another distro.
I've installed Solus (with Budgie) in September 2017. At first everything worked great, but then... It continued to do that. Now it's March 2019 and nothing broke since the install. At some point I even got curious - "Maybe it's just the combination of software that I use does not brake?". So I installed almost everything software center has to offer, tried it. Tried different desktop environments on the same install. Tried using flatpak and snap. And everything was working. Updating and working.
The only thing I can say after that is if even such unexperienced person like me can't break this in more than a year, then the developers definitely know what they are doing.
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