With the latest release of Solus, I feel I should ask. I have had my eye on this particular distro for some time now. I even did a test installation about two years ago, but it didn’t feel as complete as I needed it to be.

I am looking for a solid, beginner-friendly rolling Linux distribution for general use. Multimedia, gaming, coding etc. Do you recommend Solus? If so, why? Why not? Looking forward to your thoughts.

  • 👁️👄👁️@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    No, it was a small dev team and it died out. Stick to distros that are established and have been around for awhile. You’ll see a lot of small hobby distros that’ll disappear over night. For an easy beginner rolling release distro, I’d suggest openSUSE rolling. They are an established company and aren’t going anywhere. Their releases are very stable and have a very easy to use GUI installer and updater in the distro. It’s general use as well, not a lot extra besides the desktop environment, tools, browser, etc. Seems exactly what you’re looking for and is all out of the box.

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        1 year ago

        I think they mean the fact that the development team has seen some shuffling and the project stagnated for a bit. I love Budgie, which comes from Solus, but I’d rather use it on a different distro than using Solus, which seems a bit off-balance at the moment. Give them time to stabilize before trying them.

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      1 year ago

      But how are new and small distros going to grow if no one uses them?

      My advice is to experiment with distros you find interesting, but not on your main devices.

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        1 year ago

        I don’t think the advice is that people should ignore small distros but that small distros won’t be as beginner friendly.

        Really learning to function in Linux involves a lot of searching for what went wrong and being in a larger distro increases the chance that somebody has run into your problem before.

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          1 year ago

          I agree. Perhaps I got confused when reading the other comment.

          Small distros aren’t good ones for beginners, because support plays a great role into they first experiences.

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        1 year ago

        That you should take them with a grain of salt and see their track record over time. If a distro is only up for a month and ran by one person, maybe don’t make that your daily driver. If that same one person keeps going for 3 years, maybe consider it having more legitimacy. Even mediumish size distros like Void Linux almost crashed over night. Big ones like Fedora, Ubuntu, and openSUSE won’t ever die over night.