Solus Continues To Impress Me With Each Release DistroTube
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Date: 2022-03-30
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shaunakhub
Tried Solus 4.2 for a couple of days on physical hardware.
Found only one major issue with it (and sadly it is a deal breaker for me - is that the file manager Gnome Files can not show thumbnail of Raw files, none of the solutions available on web dont work as the packages are not available (thumbnailer etc etc)). It can not handle the theming of QT based apps properly (tried Nautilus so that I can see the thumbnails of my raw images).. Nautilus is leaps and bounds ahead of any other graphical file managers IMHO.
One think I really found shocking was how fast it boots - it takes hardly 2 - 4 seconds to give me the login screen! (i5/16 GB/ 500 GB SSD).. I have never ever seen ANY OS booting up that fast. So kudos to them on that. Did not face any issues with update after install (Was around 250 MB, I think).
So... back to Manjaro KDE... I have only one system - so can't play with it on a 'second' system.
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Tried Solus 4.2 for a couple of days on physical hardware.
Found only one major issue with it (and sadly it is a deal breaker for me - is that the file manager Gnome Files can not show thumbnail of Raw files, none of the solutions available on web dont work as the packages are not available (thumbnailer etc etc)). It can not handle the theming of QT based apps properly (tried Nautilus so that I can see the thumbnails of my raw images).. Nautilus is leaps and bounds ahead of any other graphical file managers IMHO.
One think I really found shocking was how fast it boots - it takes hardly 2 - 4 seconds to give me the login screen! (i5/16 GB/ 500 GB SSD).. I have never ever seen ANY OS booting up that fast. So kudos to them on that. Did not face any issues with update after install (Was around 250 MB, I think).
So... back to Manjaro KDE... I have only one system - so can't play with it on a 'second' system.
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Doomer
MySQL, Mysql Workbench, pgAdmin, VSCode C# extension, AppImage Launcher, pling-url tool, and many more are few examples of things missing from solus. I like every single detail about solus but the lack of packages and willingness to support many of them (MySQL for instance) is very off putting. I don't get me started about the number of snap packages I have to use. Even on Ubuntu I never use snaps :P
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MySQL, Mysql Workbench, pgAdmin, VSCode C# extension, AppImage Launcher, pling-url tool, and many more are few examples of things missing from solus. I like every single detail about solus but the lack of packages and willingness to support many of them (MySQL for instance) is very off putting. I don't get me started about the number of snap packages I have to use. Even on Ubuntu I never use snaps :P
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Andrei
Wait... bruh, what do you mean gnome doesn't allow you to have desktop icons...
Cause it totally does
Nice Distro tho... I personally don't like Budgie, I sorta got used to Gnome's overview and easy as all hell workspace navigation,
Trying out KDE for the first time now, and it's... passable. Sure looks nice, but in terms of other stuff, you gotta put more effort to make it feel like home
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Wait... bruh, what do you mean gnome doesn't allow you to have desktop icons...
Cause it totally does
Nice Distro tho... I personally don't like Budgie, I sorta got used to Gnome's overview and easy as all hell workspace navigation,
Trying out KDE for the first time now, and it's... passable. Sure looks nice, but in terms of other stuff, you gotta put more effort to make it feel like home
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WC1376C
DT, This is by far on of the nicest distros I have come across......-but- they have a MAJOR issue with setup and partitioning that you should have brought up. the whole NO btrfs and wiping your pre partitioning....etc sucks to no end. I just said peanuts and went w/ Deb for my daily, because this became such a headache to set up for install. love what your doing keep up the gospel.
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DT, This is by far on of the nicest distros I have come across......-but- they have a MAJOR issue with setup and partitioning that you should have brought up. the whole NO btrfs and wiping your pre partitioning....etc sucks to no end. I just said peanuts and went w/ Deb for my daily, because this became such a headache to set up for install. love what your doing keep up the gospel.
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David
I actually have the KDE edition-- looked at Budgie and it's SHARP looking too-- this is the ONLY KDE that I feel comfortable with-- the rest seem FAR overwhelming wtih way too much crap.. things for me to screw up.. which I usually did- this one is simple even though I can customize it any way I like. So far I LOVE this Solus- and may keep it.. I like that it's NOT ubuntu Or arch..
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I actually have the KDE edition-- looked at Budgie and it's SHARP looking too-- this is the ONLY KDE that I feel comfortable with-- the rest seem FAR overwhelming wtih way too much crap.. things for me to screw up.. which I usually did- this one is simple even though I can customize it any way I like. So far I LOVE this Solus- and may keep it.. I like that it's NOT ubuntu Or arch..
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SoundToxin
gparted has use outside of a live environment for dealing with secondary drives. Whether you put in a second HDD you need to format, or you have something removable like a flash drive, SD card, etc. which you may want to format. You can't mess with your root partition while it's mounted anyway, so I'd say it's not as dangerous as something like dd at all.
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gparted has use outside of a live environment for dealing with secondary drives. Whether you put in a second HDD you need to format, or you have something removable like a flash drive, SD card, etc. which you may want to format. You can't mess with your root partition while it's mounted anyway, so I'd say it's not as dangerous as something like dd at all.
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Daniel
They still haven't fixed the issue of systemd-boot not creating a boot entry after installation (might only happen with dualboot systems), which has been an ongoing issue since its inception. That's always been my experience with Solus throughout the years. I genuinely will never use it, nor recommend it to anybody.
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They still haven't fixed the issue of systemd-boot not creating a boot entry after installation (might only happen with dualboot systems), which has been an ongoing issue since its inception. That's always been my experience with Solus throughout the years. I genuinely will never use it, nor recommend it to anybody.
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Ensue85A
Why is it that all the Linux live images that I've experienced automatically choose the highest screen resolution that my monitor is capable. My monitor is a 4k tv that someone gave me. I have bad eyes and can't see things that small and can't easily find and see the screen resolution settings.
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Why is it that all the Linux live images that I've experienced automatically choose the highest screen resolution that my monitor is capable. My monitor is a 4k tv that someone gave me. I have bad eyes and can't see things that small and can't easily find and see the screen resolution settings.
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Enderger
Honestly, I think that if you want to use Solus then you should use the Nix package manager on the side. The package set is awesome (extended further by the NUR) and installs packages to run natively (being the curated package set of NixOS) while still avoiding dependency issues.
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Honestly, I think that if you want to use Solus then you should use the Nix package manager on the side. The package set is awesome (extended further by the NUR) and installs packages to run natively (being the curated package set of NixOS) while still avoiding dependency issues.
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countereverything
It's really unfortunate that this distro doesn't support btrfs. I think the community is really catching on to how nice snapshots are, especially on a roller like this. That pushed me to opensuse. Also I like cinnamon and don't know if it's in the solus repos, doubt it.
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It's really unfortunate that this distro doesn't support btrfs. I think the community is really catching on to how nice snapshots are, especially on a roller like this. That pushed me to opensuse. Also I like cinnamon and don't know if it's in the solus repos, doubt it.
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