Solus Is Back, but Can It Survive Its Troubled Past? - FOSS Force
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It's fair to ask how long will Ikey Doherty stay with the Solus Project before abandoning it for the third time.

TBH, as a previous Solus user, I don’t think I’d go back.

Part of the rise of the Linux desktop is that I have options that are stable, supported, and likely won’t vanish into the ether anytime soon. Feels bad to think, but, eh, I’m just too old for anything else. 😀

  • aleph@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 year ago

    It’s a rolling community distro that’s also beginner-friendly. For instance, its package manager uses plain English terms instead of the unintuitive alphabet soup that Arch-based distros employ.

    It also is the flagship distro for the Budgie DE.

    I’ve tried it out a few times in a VM and there’s a lot to like about it, but IMO the downsides are package availability (especially when compared to the AUR) and the dev team’s rocky past. I’ll be keeping an eye on it, though.