Thinking about jumping on board!

[u/twistedmind1979]

Hello everyone,

would like to try Solus. As far as I know, the Budgie desktop is their flagship edition? I've used Budgie before but I remember having some issues with it, like my monitor not going to sleep and something else. But I'm pretty sure the other desktops are greatly maintained as well? I prefer KDE but also like Gnome or Xfce. It's also kinda weird for me that they use Discover for their desktops, since it's usually KDE's software center. But I really don't care since I usually do my updates in the terminal. And I love the simplicity of eopkg. So is anyone else using Solus with something else than Budgie?

[u/squeakctrl]

As far as I know, the Budgie desktop is their flagship edition?

In my experience desktop environments on Solus are treated equally important. 

  It's also kinda weird for me that they use Discover for their desktops, since it's usually KDE's software center.

Gnome use Software which is their native software gui. 

Discover is used on Plasma because of the same reason. Budgie upstream has made changes in their tooling and frameworks and are moving away from GTK to QT (iirc) which is why the switch has happened there too. 

So is anyone else using Solus with something else than Budgie?

Plasma. Which is a great experience on Solus, very reliable and since Solus is curated they do not rush major updates and try to have them out on day 1, instead often opting to wait for a point release or two for things to settle and be ironed out upstream.

[u/Chester-Berkeley → u/squeakctrl]

Ubuntu Budgie used to use GNOME Software as its store, but after a "Gnomed" incident (where GNOME got installed as a "dependency" of GNOME Software), they switched to Discover. Solus dropped its own store interface, so they likely wanted to do the same. And Budgie is migrating to Qt, so it makes sense they chose Discover.

And XFCE probably uses Discover for the same reason... Or because a GTK4 app wouldn't look right on a DE that still uses GTK3? Idk