SOLUS HYPE
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Solus 1.2 is about to come! Linux Steam Integration, New Kernel, More Budgie awesomeness, i can't wait!
>>54830341
What's so great about it?
>>54830341
I tried to use it, but the shell was laggy on my AMD card.
>>54830341
Why should we care about yet ANOTHER distro that claims to do exactly what every other "user-oriented" distro already fucking does?
>>54830412
Yeah, that's getting fixed in 1.2
>>54830341
I tried it out. Seems kinda shit.
>>54830419
>>54830358
>Packaging done right
>No baggage from older distros
>Really nice Desktop
>Sane compilation flags for binaries
>Performance focus (gaming and stuff)
>Not Ubuntu
>>54830448
But the only reason I use (x)ubuntu is because there is so much documentation and support for it. How is packaging better? Does it use its own DE?
This looks like essentialy dumbed down Linux. If it survives, maybe i'll use it to ease my family into Linux and eventually other distros.
but when are we getting 1.2? is there a beta, release candidate or something?
>>54830434
like that there are other distros still showing up, but also don't like the fragmentation.
oh well, good on them for sticking with it.
>>54830341
But do they have a graphical alt-tab application switcher or at the very least non-random application switching? Like seriously I want to like the distro but if alt+tab can't just switch to the last focused window then something's wrong. The bug report on it has been open for like a year now, and they're working on steam integration and crap instead of super basic usability features.
>>54830472
Yeah, it uses budgie. It's based around the GNOME stack but isn't based on GNOME itself. Basically just shares a bunch of configuration.
>>54831110
it looks almost exactly like gnome and last time I tried it it wasn't all that stable
>>54830341
Is the package manager completely new? Surely a package format needs a critical mass of package maintainers before it actually becomes usable. Seems like it would be impossible to complete with existing competition like deb/rpm formats. How exactly does it work?
>Solus
>Budgie
Those are some stupid-ass names
>>54830341
Do you even care to tell us when they are going to release it?
Lame. I'll stick to Funtoo.
>>54833578
IIRC it's just a tar.xz with some yml metadata but they're thing is that they treat packaging like a build tool or something like that.
>>54830341
Terrible name, terrible logo, terrible desktop, terrible ethos. Get fucked OP.
