Back on Solus, left Debian Stable

[u/_firn_]

Man, it's been a couple years since I've been on Solus and holy moly is it fast!

I am on a framework 13 laptop and wanted something newer, stable, and rolling and then remembered how much I enjoyed Solus a while ago.

I've tried Fedora and Arch and neither were for me honestly.

Out of curiousity I also tested Solus performance vs CachyOS in the Black Myth Wukong benchmark tool on Steam and, well, they performed the same!

Solus got an avg 67 frames with a high of 94 and low of 34

Cachy got an avg 66 frames with a high of 97 and low of 33

That's very impressive to me! I get the performance of Cachy without the headache of Arch. Good stuff!

[u/EmeriJT]

Que ligero! Estoy usando Arch pero Solus me parece interesante. Habria probado void pero configurar los servicios de Audio sin systemd en mi laptop me parecio difícil y aveces me gastaba más ram que con Systemd.

[u/Javelinv12 → u/EmeriJT]

Dale una oportunidad. Es una distro increiblemente comoda para el dia a dia. Es el definitivo "install and forget" en mi opinion.

[u/0riginal-Syn]

Thank you for the feedback and welcome back to Solus!

[u/_firn_ → u/0riginal-Syn]

Much thanks :) y'all are doing great work

[u/EmeriJT]

Cuantos paquetes tiene Solus? me interesa esa distro.

[u/_firn_ → u/EmeriJT]

On a fresh install, there was around 920 packages if I remember correctly.

Much less than the 1300+ than a fresh debian stable install had.

[u/[deleted] → u/EmeriJT]

Please look here: https://github.com/getsolus/packages

[u/hellequin67]

I really wanted to like Solus, and I still do. It's something I'll go back to when I don't have a potato laptop.

I tried on a VM with both KDE and Budgie for around a month and it was flawless.

Unfortunately when I installed it on my potatoe it would lag so noticeably in menu selection it was just unusable 😭

As soon as I have a better laptop it will try it again as I really like the idea of a stable rolling release distro.

[u/_firn_ → u/hellequin67]

ah sorry to hear that!

Maybe it's worth trying Xfce but idk how much that would really help

[u/hellequin67 → u/_firn_]

Ah it is what it is. I haven't lost hope and will return once I have a better laptop.

[u/debianissofastforme]

Done the same about 9 months ago. I am happy I did it.

[u/_firn_ → u/debianissofastforme]

Yeah, I've been very impressed with it today. I love debian stable but on newer hardware I just felt like I wasn't using my tech to its potential.

Did you also come from deb stable?

[u/debianissofastforme → u/_firn_]

​Yup. I had been using it with an AMD card for years without any problems. I decided to go with NVIDIA when I upgraded my GPU this year, and everything just went downhill.

Then I remembered Solus from back in the 'Evolve OS' days. It was much faster than anything I had used at the time, and I really don't like Fedora, Arch, or Ubuntu, so I went with Solus.

​If I were to write down the description of my perfect distro on paper, it would be exactly how Solus works. Rolling, but not rushing. Fast, but careful.

It's been 9 months with only one reinstall and that was only because I was using GNOME and wanted to switch to Plasma, so I did a clean install.

[u/_firn_ → u/debianissofastforme]

I'm still on AMD but same, on paper solus is pretty perfect. Luckily it seems to be living up to it so far!

I'm sure I'll run into an issue one day but it's not like Debian Stable was always perfect either!

[u/Lesnite]

SolusOS was the only distro that worked on my PC back in the day when I first got into Linux 🥺💜🥺 Definitely got to return to it on my laptop

[u/zomboezombie]

Solus os is a rock

[u/karlexceed]

I recently installed Solus on a 10 year old laptop and was impressed by the speed as well.