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1 • Solus (by draya on 2023-07-31 03:53:14 GMT from Australia)
Solus was the first distro I installed, six or so years ago, and it was great back then with a lot of energy around the project. I'd agree with the closing words of your review - the lead developer was full on back then, but what is going to happen now (they seem to want to rebase it on his newest project).
He's also got a lot of ground to make up after all the walking out on projects he starts up.
2 • Solus 4.4 (by Didier Spaier on 2023-07-31 07:17:08 GMT from France)
I find weird that Solus 4.4 includes a 6.3.8 kernel, as the 6.3 branch is EOL. I wonder if they have the resources needed to patch this kernel themselves when needs arise.
This not withstanding I will try the MATE edition in a VM.
3 • Solus & MATE (by oswald_c on 2023-07-31 09:52:55 GMT from United Kingdom)
If you're going to run a poll on Solus dropping MATE in the future, it's a little unfair not to mention the stated reason. Solus has decided to adopt Wayland where feasible, and unlike Xfce, they consider that "does not have a credible and active Wayland strategy, with the project itself effectively being on life support".
https://getsol.us/2023/07/08/solus-4-4-released/
4 • Solus 4.4 (by Linuxseekers on 2023-07-31 11:32:45 GMT from Malaysia)
Like it so much that I installed it, despite the digit 4 that is a taboo in Chinese tradition! Deleted STAT upon realizing MATE will be dropped!
5 • Solus (by James on 2023-07-31 11:43:01 GMT from United States)
Ikey is a great developer, but seldom sticks with a project. I got burnt on the first very first Solus (not the second first Solus), and said never again. I am a Mate user and love Mate. The whole dispute with Solus seems to be between development team members that prefer not ready yet Wayland and other that prefer traditional Xorg. Looks like the Wayland people won.
6 • Solus & LinuxMint (by Patrick on 2023-07-31 12:23:23 GMT from United States)
I tried all 3 Solus4.4 distros and I thought they were all very good. I'm not a Gnome fan too much but the Gnome version used less resources than the others so I chose that as my favorite. As far as LinuxMint goes, I recognized it as a real winner back at version 8 and stuck with it ever since so I'm still a proud beginner now at ver.21.2. It's been great:)
7 • Solus 4.4 (by White on 2023-07-31 14:17:35 GMT from Poland)
I'm using Solus for few years now. Issue with theming is GTK4 and Gnome people fault so I don't blame Budgie devs and maintainers for it. Even for Gnome version of Solus there are issues and for every Linux distro out there with uses this stack. Other than that most solid distro, with all I need. Looking forward for Solus 4.5 as a distro using SerpentOS tech.
8 • What is the point of Solus? (by Alex on 2023-07-31 14:29:19 GMT from United States)
What is the primary reason to use Solus other than Budgie came from Ikey Doherty's brain? Why not just run Budgie on top of another distro that has more developers and packagers like Debian or Arch?
9 • Xfce and Wayland (Solus) (by JeffC on 2023-07-31 15:06:55 GMT from United States)
Xfce is barely in the beginning stages of developing for use with Wayland, the Xfce devs do not really consider Wayland ready for use yet.
So any jump to it because of Wayland is premature at best.
The Wayland devs have only had 15 years to get it to the current state, how much longer it will take to be fully usable is anyone's guess.
10 • Solus comments on MATE (by Kazlu on 2023-07-31 15:19:25 GMT from France)
Do you think the comments on MATE in Solus' announcement are legitimate?
MATE effectively being on "life support", "Xfce sees considerably more development than MATE"... Or do you think it is only centered on the Wayland situation ans Solus extrapolates?
11 • Solus (by Sasi on 2023-07-31 15:51:10 GMT from India)
I tried couple of times installing the OS. I never succeeded as my dual boot /efi partition size was always low (it doesn't accept size below 500Mb!!!). I am back with my Debian, KDE testing branch - oh what a fantastic distro....complexity with ease. That too with the latest ISO image of date, the installation was so smooth.
12 • Jesse's Reviews (by Why-oh-why on 2023-08-01 11:20:21 GMT from Netherlands)
It is strange to read reviews where the reviewer is pointing out or criticizing "design inconsistencies" in one case (Solus) but praising the improvements and the design in another case (Linux Mint), which contains the exact same "design inconsistencies." BTW, this isn't an inconsistency but a long overdue feature.
13 • @7 • Solus 4.4 (by White from Poland) (by Why-oh-why on 2023-08-01 11:21:18 GMT from Netherlands)
"Issue with theming is GTK4 and Gnome people fault..."
The "issue" with theming is not a fault but a feature, and it is the result of well-executed design.
If a user has a light theme with a light or colored top window border but uses a full-screen application with a dark background, the annoying light line over the dark screen will be the result, like, for example, when watching a video.
Some applications must always run with dark backgrounds, at least in professional environments, like video and image editing applications, for example, and that's why the user should be able to set a light theme, but every application's window top should be dark if the application is using a dark background.
https://www.opensourcefeed.org/screenshots/Xubuntu%2020.04/10%20Parole%20Media%20Player.png
https://i.stack.imgur.com/q5KKH.jpg
14 • @10 • Solus comments on MATE (by Kazlu from France) (by Why-oh-why on 2023-08-01 11:22:08 GMT from Netherlands)
"MATE effectively being on "life support"..."
MATE has no future, nor is there any reason to keep it alive. Every Gnome 3/4 installation comes with a "better Mate" called "Classic."
15 • Dropping MATE (by Barnabyh on 2023-08-01 11:43:10 GMT from United Kingdom)
Arguably, as MATE of course has its fans and quite a lot of them. However, I also feel that XFCE is the better alternative these days but preferences are subjective.
I'm sure there'll be an outcry if you tell the fan base that the days of Gnome2/ MATE have gone on for long enough.
Or Trinity for that matter.
16 • MATE (by Friar Tux on 2023-08-01 13:44:19 GMT from Canada)
Hmmm, I wonder if MATE's "time has come". I was never sure why GTK2 had such a hard time getting off the stage. When I gave up on KDE a few years back, when it kept breaking my system, I tested out MATE but found it severely lacking. I fell in love with Cinnamon. It was far better built with more features. One big "must", for me, are the Applets and Desklets, as I use them quite a bit. MATE has none of those - at least none that I could find. To be fair, I also tried XFCE, which has a few applets but nothing like Cinnamon. And finally, this is the clincher for me, is the fact that the CSS theme files of Cinnamon are much easier to modify than the RC files of MATE. Between Linux Mint and Cinnamon, it seems to me Clément Lefèbvre got a lot of things right.
17 • Mate (by Otis on 2023-08-01 14:09:05 GMT from United States)
Defaulting to the wisdom of the MX Linux devs we see: "Fluxbox, KDE Plasma, Xfce."
Three choices that cover all we need in approach to our Linux experience (subjective, of course).
There is a website or two walking us through the "experiment" of installing and using Mate, caveats and ymmv embedded in every step.
Mate's done, imo. Gnome's always been a strange journey, pre or post 2. IMO.
18 • Solus Audio (by July on 2023-08-01 14:27:42 GMT from United States)
Surprised that it seems Solus didn't add sof-firmware to their latest ISO, which I'm assuming is why you didn't have audio. My laptop has the same sound card and didn't have audio on Solus 4.3, but they've been packaging sof-firmware for a while so installing that just got the audio.
Solus was the distro that got me on Linux full-time and I stuck to it until their recent downtime, which got me switching to Arch. Dunno if I'll go back, but if I do it'll probably be after they rebase on SerpentOS, whenever that happens. I am definitely excited to see that happen.
19 • MATE (by JSBern on 2023-08-01 16:55:25 GMT from United States)
As I posted on another site MATE is anything but dead the Solus devs really don't know what they are talking about as MATE has quite active development and wayland integration is probably as far along as xfce or farther, yeah they do not rework the whole code base all the time, but what they have works, why change it. What the Solus dev's posted is a lie, solus is far more likely to die than MATE, now yes xfce may possibly have wayland support befor MATE, but MATE will very likely have a full wayland support but 1.30 which would be out in 2027, 1.28 may even have an option experimental wayland session, and that will likely be out before ubuntu 24.04, and with Wayland MATE gains full true seamless fractional scaling and I think multimonitor support according to the MATE devs
20 • MATE desktop (by draya on 2023-08-01 23:32:28 GMT from Australia)
@19 agreed - I have used Ubuntu MATE extensively in the past (after switching from Solus Budgie, actually) and have found it excellent.
It might have one of the smaller development teams around but clearly a lot of people use it as there are plenty of independent guides out there for non-tech people such as myself which enable you to do just about anything you want to do on a desktop.
MATE itself also seems to be one of the easiest desktops to get working on the likes of FreeBSD and OpenIndiana (where it is the default) so is as cross-platform as anything else.
Not for the first time, I don't know where Solus is coming from (which is why I have avoided it for many years).
21 • Ubuntu OverlayFS vulnerability (by pepa65 on 2023-08-02 00:39:22 GMT from Thailand)
It would have been good to mention in the article that this only affects the 23.04 edition, and only kernel 6.2.0, that would make it really easy for the vast majority of users to see that they are not affected. I only use Ubuntu LTS, so I was put at ease once I read this, not in the linked BleepingComputer article, because that did not contain any specifics, but in Ubuntu's Security Bulletin: https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6250-1
22 • MATE (by pepa65 on 2023-08-02 00:50:12 GMT from Thailand)
Solus is bullshitting. MATE is not dead at all. It is the very best desktop environment IMO, the only one I use really. If a distro does not ship mate, I don't even look at it. I've installed Solus 4.4 MATE to check it out, and it seems to work well. I have (obviously) not used Wayland, and I don't really need to or even want to, unless it works well.
MATE can be easily customized the way I want it, and no other desktop environment can. I love the "old" World Clock applet that only MATE has, where you can see a little map of the world with the daylight 'shadowed' onto it, and your list of time zones. When Gnome3 came out I used "Classic" for a bit, but once I found that MATE worked just as well and was even easier, I switched to that, never to look back. MATE is well maintained and developed, and will absolutely outlive Solus, in whatever incarnation.
23 • steaming desktop duel (by emu in frozen car on 2023-08-02 01:09:31 GMT from Poland)
MATE may be okay for some, but XFCE really has the power! 88 miles per hourhourhourhour!
24 • Solus, MATE and Linux Mint (by penguinx86 on 2023-08-02 10:01:16 GMT from United States)
I don't use Solus, but I made the switch from MATE to Xfce several years ago. MATE was OK at first, but lately it seems like a patched together kluge that is slow and buggy at times. I was using MATE with Linux Mint for years. But lately, I prefer Xfce. It's faster and cleaner. With jiust a few customiztions, Xfce does everything I want without all the overhead and slowness of MATE or Cinnamon. It just works! Same with Linux Mint. Linux Mint works with no hassles every time I install it. My favorite thing about Linux Mint is it's the only distro that is compatible with the wifi adapter in my laptop out of the box. No need to scramble for wifi drivers after installing Linux Mint.
25 • MATE DESKTOP, LINUX MINT (by Albert on 2023-08-02 13:44:06 GMT from United States)
I also happen to like MATE, it's in fact my preferred Desktop, but I also like Xfce and KDE Plasma. I don't like Cinnamon very much because it's very close to the current version of Gnome which I find too much rigid to my taste. However I can manage to work with both of them if necessary.
I must say that sometimes I've found bugs in the three desktops mentioned first. I can't say anything about the last two as I don't use them that much.
As for distros, Linux Mint has always been my favorite one, but I have some others installed anyway.
26 • Solus/MATE (by Friar Tux on 2023-08-02 19:19:57 GMT from Canada)
Just read the article in "It's FOSS News", so here is the official reason given for dropping MATE:- "The key reason behind it was the MATE project being in a very dilapidated state, with no plans for a Wayland implementation." Pretty vague, if you ask me. No actual proof of this "dilapidated state". Nor is there any proof given that MATE is NOT working on Wayland implementation. OK, anyone from the MATE team want to jump in here with a rebuttal. Not that anyone really cares. Those of us that use MATE will most likely do so to the very end, and I believe that there will probably be someone waiting in the wings to take over and keep MATE running.
27 • Solus (by Devlin7 on 2023-08-03 08:19:59 GMT from New Zealand)
I confess, I hop like crazy but something keeps drawing me to Solus budgie. It runs well and is stable. Two common issues for me are 1) The theme is not consistent and 2) The initial update after installation often hangs and locks the screen, nothing happens for a long time and if you restart, the boot process crashes before the gui. To fix this you just need to complete the updates via command line. None of the desktop environment wow me. Gnome is heavy and a little click intensive. Plasma is pretty but I find the settings cluttered and it it does some bat shit crazy things. Like Cinnamon but the menu is huge on my small laptop screen. Mate is great but if I use it I feel like using 20 years old linux. XFCE is good but it is no longer light. I find the same with most window managers, by the time you have a bar, and notifications you are using as much ram as a low end DE. I love Enlightenment 160-180Mb of RAM at boot, runs like a rocket does basic tiling, great WM like keyboard control but it too has components I don't like. So I find myself hopping like mad hoping that one day I will find it. WHen I boot a distro and it uses RAM like windows, I shut it down and look for another.
28 • @27 Devlin7: looking for a desktop (by Kazlu on 2023-08-04 07:34:30 GMT from France)
I must say I am interested in your search for a very fast but not too barebones desktop (as I understand it).
Have you tried theming a MATE desktop? It can do wonders for the looks. Lnux Mint has traditional looking and modern looking themes, you might grab a copy just to suck the themes out of it... Otherwise, have you tried LXQt, Trinity even? Again, be wary of theming and maybe change the Trinity menu, which rings Windows XP bells!
I would be interested in your impressions of other desktops.
For the record, I use Xfce. I landed on it a dozen years ago and I am so used to it now than whenever I go somewhere else, I always feel like something is off, or missing.
29 • 'Give a Mint...please...' (by tom joad on 2023-08-04 15:08:14 GMT from Germany)
I have wandered around Linux distros for years and years now. I have tried this and that and the other. I stayed with some for a bit while I kicked others to the curb pretty quickly after installing them.
Mint, however, has stuck with me. Why?
Remember the old Ubuntu slogan from back in the day...'It just works.' Remember that? For me that is Mint...it just works.
With Mint there is no drama, no angst, no stress, no bad times. I just get stuff done while Mint just seems to hum in the background doing what it does quietly.
A bit of a story if you will allow...
I run a relay and have for several years. The MX version ran until it was EOL'ed. So I had to consider another distro for the next few years. The tower that runs the relay is resourced challenged. I built it that way as I always meant it to be just a relay.
So I needed a 'lite' distro for the next go-round. I tried Zorin 16. OMG! No. That ran for a couple of months. But it just didn't set with me. So I moved on to Lite. Lite should be a good relay candidate...should be. NOPE! I ran the 6 version which gave me heartaches, headaches and endless drama. For instance the logs files were daily out of control. So I ripped Lite out. On the run again.
For grins, I installed Mint 21.1. At first blush one would not think Mint 21.1 cinnamon would run a relay on a limit resources full tower. Yet is does. And it does it without even a burp. Zero drama. The relay has been up and running placidly for three months.
Below is the top sections of the relays inxi...
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System:
Host: nemesis-mint-now Kernel: 5.15.0-75-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.3.0
Console: pty pts/0 DM: LightDM 1.30.0 Distro: Linux Mint 21.1 Vera base: Ubuntu 22.04 jammy
Machine:
Type: Desktop System: MSI product: MS-7994 v: 1.0 serial:
Mobo: MSI model: H110M GAMING (MS-7994) v: 1.0 serial:
UEFI: American Megatrends v: 5.80 date: 12/16/2016
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As I said 'If you gotta get 'stuff' done, Mint it the one."
30 • Mint 21.2 (by Justin on 2023-08-04 16:18:26 GMT from United States)
I've been using Mint for years because I like Cinnamon. When I upgraded from 17 to 21, Cinnamon now sits for several seconds on a black screen when I log in. It's unfortunate because my PC boots faster to the login prompt than it takes to load the desktop. I don't know what's wrong but they didn't fix it in 21.2. I suspect the desktop is waiting for a network connection because my physical ethernet port can be slow to come up. If anyone knows a way to turn off that waiting, I'd appreciate it. It's not wait-online.service but something specific with Cinnamon. I use a built-in classic desktop theme and layout, so maybe no one tests that or no one has slow ethernet. Searching online yields nothing helpful. The logs only show a big gap between start time and showing the desktop, same with systemd-bootchart. I wonder if I unplugged my cable if the desktop would come up at all. Other than that annoyance, the desktop has been good.
31 • @ 30--Fast-booting Mint 17 vs slow-booting Mint 21 (by R. Cain on 2023-08-04 18:41:54 GMT from United States)
Offered with absolutely no comment or judgement whatever, and referring to only Mint distros based on Ubuntu--
All versions of Mint up through and including Mint 17.3 do not use systemd.
Starting with Mint 18, Mint uses systemd.
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| • Issue 1126 (2025-06-16): SDesk 2025.05.06, renewed interest in Ubuntu Touch, a BASIC device running NetBSD, Ubuntu dropping X11 GNOME session, GNOME increases dependency on systemd, Google holding back Pixel source code, Nitrux changing its desktop, EFF turns 35 |
| • Issue 1125 (2025-06-09): RHEL 10, distributions likely to survive a decade, Murena partners with more hardware makers, GNOME tests its own distro on real hardware, Redox ports GTK and X11, Mint provides fingerprint authentication |
| • Issue 1124 (2025-06-02): Picking up a Pico, tips for protecting privacy, Rhino tests Plasma desktop, Arch installer supports snapshots, new features from UBports, Ubuntu tests monthly snapshots |
| • Issue 1123 (2025-05-26): CRUX 3.8, preventing a laptop from sleeping, FreeBSD improves laptop support, Fedora confirms GNOME X11 session being dropped, HardenedBSD introduces Rust in userland build, KDE developing a virtual machine manager |
| • Issue 1122 (2025-05-19): GoboLinux 017.01, RHEL 10.0 and Debian 12 updates, openSUSE retires YaST, running X11 apps on Wayland |
| • Issue 1121 (2025-05-12): Bluefin 41, custom file manager actions, openSUSE joins End of 10 while dropping Deepin desktop, Fedora offers tips for building atomic distros, Ubuntu considers replacing sudo with sudo-rs |
| • Issue 1120 (2025-05-05): CachyOS 250330, what it means when a distro breaks, Kali updates repository key, Trinity receives an update, UBports tests directory encryption, Gentoo faces losing key infrastructure |
| • Issue 1119 (2025-04-28): Ubuntu MATE 25.04, what is missing from Linux, CachyOS ships OCCT, Debian enters soft freeze, Fedora discusses removing X11 session from GNOME, Murena plans business services, NetBSD on a Wii |
| • Issue 1118 (2025-04-21): Fedora 42, strange characters in Vim, Nitrux introduces new package tools, Fedora extends reproducibility efforts, PINE64 updates multiple devices running Debian |
| • Issue 1117 (2025-04-14): Shebang 25.0, EndeavourOS 2025.03.19, running applications from other distros on the desktop, Debian gets APT upgrade, Mint introduces OEM options for LMDE, postmarketOS packages GNOME 48 and COSMIC, Redox testing USB support |
| • Issue 1116 (2025-04-07): The Sense HAT, Android and mobile operating systems, FreeBSD improves on laptops, openSUSE publishes many new updates, Fedora appoints new Project Leader, UBports testing VoLTE |
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Quirky, a sister project of Puppy Linux, was a Linux distribution built with a custom tool called Woof. The underlying infrastructure, such as boot-up and shut-down scripts, setup tools, hardware detection, desktop management, user interface, speed and general ease-of-use are common across all distributions built with Woof, but a specific build will have a different package selection and further customisation (even totally different binary packages). Quirky was developed by the founder of Puppy Linux and Woof to push the envelope a bit further, to explore some new ideas in the underlying infrastructure -- some of which may be radical or odd, hence the name Quirky.
Status: Discontinued
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