Does anyone here actually use Solus?
If so, why? I'm genuinely curious. I have never encountered anyone who runs it.
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Yes, I'm still using as my daily os. I find that it is stable and kept updated without any large effort on my part. Ease of mind and security.
Why solus and not anything else
Ive tried Debian a long while ago and a few like mint but something about the solus just struck me as correct and right. I think it was the stability of the repos that is the usp
How's the package availability? Does it ship everything you would need?
I think so. Most things just work and if not in the default repos I find it in flatpak. Gimp and steam and other things are there.
Have it on a touchscreen Thinkpad and it works well enough. It loses the cursor when using the touchscreen is my only minor gripe. I use the trackpad anyways. Other than that, it seems good. Computery.
I did at one point, its pretty much like a novel flavor of Linux distro with a very fast package manager. The repos were decent, but, not bountiful with software...So I eventually went with Garuda Linux.
Solus, in my experience was a good daily driver, never had any meaningful issues running it. Fairly solid Linux distribution. The rolling updates didn't ever break anything serious for me, but, I did have to do one or two manual interventions on my configs.
I wanted to. Seemed like my ideal Gnome distro since I have a lot of annoyances with Fedora bugs.
However it was even worse
I use a Bluetooth mouse and doing any kind of installs through Gnome software would completely freeze up my mouse and cause lag with it.
Unfortunate, because I'd like to use it but its too janky for my mouse I guess
I did for awhile on PC, but more recently I couldn’t get it to run happily on an ARM macOS VM. I try off and on but it never works right, so I have boring old Debian when I need Linux (usually to disk repair for disks actually used by Linux machines).