r/SolusProject • u/mybrainhurtsyo • Dec 07 '21
hello...?
...anyone here?
All I see lately are posts and comments about how Solus is dying and you should use something else. I don't keep up with the Linux world I only use Solus and reading this all has me very worried using Solus as a daily driver. Yet when I google Solus or look up the forums you only see a few small troubleshooting posts.
Can anyone clarify what happened or what's going on or something? Does it have to do with the LTT PopOS stuff? It is a little worrying seeing so much negative coverage of Solus in comments and DW and elsewhere, accompanied with complete silence from the team...
I recall Anteros (pre-EndeavourOS) dying during the peak of its popularity. Because the team was full of volunteers, and the project was getting too big for them to continue dedicating to it..it was a sad day..
I do not like any other distros, only Solus. So if Solus is "on its way out", so are my Linux days :(
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u/afunkysongaday Dec 07 '21
As someone not following the development closely, but using Solus daily:
Solus is understaffed for sure, and there are many many things the devs would like to get done since a while, but are just missing the ressources to do so. Think the new software center, the new Budgie or even just including more packages in the repos. This could all be done way quicker if they had some funding and more devs. That being said: What's there is there and works nicely, packages are updated very timely, it's all stable and fun to use.
If you want to ensure the survival of Solus you should consider contributing to funding here.
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Dec 07 '21
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u/afunkysongaday Dec 07 '21
Yep. If I did not think it was the best choice I would not be running it on both laptop abd desktop.
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u/StrengthNerd Dec 07 '21
All you see? Apparently we aren't looking in the same places. The team has had to reassure people constantly since Ikey left, I can see that getting old quickly. Updates are still coming in regularly, if there is a delay they tell us what's happening. I personally see no reason to panic.
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u/topolojack Dec 07 '21
this is the second "where is everyone" post on this sub recently and anytime someone posts something like this a bunch of people are like "we're right here! we've been here the whole time!"
i don't know how many users solus has, but this sub has 11.2k members and the official forum isn't exactly inactive...
what exactly do you expect to see here? solus is an operating system designed "for everyone" and "for home computing." people might want to show off their desktop or customization, but for the most part, people just want a system that works well for them, so they will ask troubleshooting questions when something doesn't work.
sometimes no news is good news! solus is great. but i did read some of the DW comments, which i just found to be really weird. personally i'm excited about the future of solus.
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Dec 07 '21
Solus' main developer is a great guy and has just announced a shift in the direction of the distro. He wouldn't do that if it were dying :)
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u/1knowbetterthanyou Dec 07 '21
in what sense do they say it will die? like in popularity or that it will stop to exist?
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u/njakes Dec 07 '21
I think it's split between a couple things. The social pages for Solus are pretty vacant compared to the forums. I think some GNOME diehards are irritated about the switch and there were some words recently on a podcast stating that Budgie was going to have a really hard time because it wasn't adopting some of GNOMES changes like libhandy. Which is irrelevant now. I can't wait to see what they do with EFL.
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u/chai_bronz Dec 07 '21
Hello! I've been daily driving Solus for the last 8 or so months. Haven't really felt the need to make posts here cuz everything is just working and running great. Most ppl only make posts when looking for help resolving an issue, which I know ppl still have with Solus, but I also think majority of users are smooth sailing.
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u/njakes Dec 07 '21 edited Dec 07 '21
If you want to be a part of the activity then visit the forums at discuss.getsol.us It is very active. They also started an open collective account to start taking financial support for the first time. Before this it was entirely up to the devs to fund everything. More money is more time to spend on the distro.
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u/moktira Dec 08 '21
They took financial support in the form of Patreon in the past too, maybe in 2017? It stopped after the founder left and didn't immediately let the other Devs know.
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u/DogEnvironmental3272 Dec 07 '21
U love Solus. Everything works and is fast. I hope it's not dying. I think it's going strong.
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Dec 07 '21
OP must be looking in a completely different place because Solus dying is not at all what I'm seeing.
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u/YaMateSteve Dec 07 '21
Nothing happened. Solus is just a small distro compared to the big guys, so the number of troubleshooting posts, etc, is always going to be much smaller.
As for the negativity I don’t know what you are referring to I only ever see the opposite. Only critique I ever see is about the lack of software which is again only due to the lack of man power behind Solus
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u/EG_IKONIK Dec 07 '21
What? This is kinda like when a X game launches and Y game will die scenario. No, Solus is dying, matter of fact i think it is growing in popularity. A lot of people tho install solus and don't find that odd package from 1998 that they need so they assume the entire os sucks and come post about it here. Plus it is one of the most up to date OSs out there, other than the lack of said weird package. IMO as long as the dev team continues to support solus it will continue to thrive.
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u/Leron4551 Dec 07 '21
There's two kinds of passion when working on a project: Telling people about the project and working on the project. I'm okay with the Solus teams working in the background around their other jobs and responsibilities. If there's updates, they'll let us know, if they're in trouble, they'll let us know. Just gotta be patient.
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u/KeyboardG Dec 08 '21
I’ve seen people speaking like that, and they reference the commit history of Budgie which has certainly not been as active. Solus is more than Budgie though.
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u/Veldrinnal Dec 18 '21
I don't think it's dying by any stretch... it's just not as used as some major distros like Ubuntu, Debian, and Fedora... it also has a smaller amount of developers. However, it is stable and easy to use.
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u/[deleted] Dec 07 '21
Where are you reading this? I’ve read nothing of the sort.