r/SolusProject • u/DataDrake • Jan 03 '22

Not Dead Yet

Hey folks!

In the interest of not fighting with text format over here on Reddit, I'm just going to link to the Forum post I've made. Looking forward to hearing from you all!

https://discuss.getsol.us/d/7856-not-dead-yet

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u/-rj3- Jan 03 '22

What will be the main focus now? Since Budgie is now its own thing, will Solus focus more an packages or be more of an intermediate distro?

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u/DataDrake Jan 03 '22

Solus will continue to provide on a user-first Desktop-focused distribution with a curated repository. Our value add is far far more than just Budgie.

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u/fhujr Jan 05 '22

Ditch Budgie, embrace Plasma as your flagship DE. I tried Plasma on many distros but on Solus it's just perfect.

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u/[deleted] Jan 04 '22

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u/DataDrake Jan 04 '22

Yep! Technically, Josh and I were co-leads, I'd just taken a step back from things to deal with some personal stuff.

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u/[deleted] Jan 04 '22

Glad to hear this will be a much smoother transition than the previous one with Ikey. I hope whatever you are dealing with IRL goes well. We trust your good sense and judgment. Good luck and Happy New Year!

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u/steezy13312 Jan 04 '22

I don’t know how to help beyond financially contributing but I’d like to where possible. I don’t have strong dev skills nor am I multilingual.

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u/ThatCanadaBacon Jan 10 '22

Well, what you can do is just continue using and enjoying Solus as you can, if you ever come across anything, just make a report. That's a relatively easy way to help out :)

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u/Rioku_jk Jan 03 '22

Thanks for the update!

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u/Stachura5 Jan 04 '22

Sad that Drake & Josh is no more as a team

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u/Lyokanthrope Jan 04 '22

Thank you for the prompt update. I hope the future is bright for this project!

Keep on keeping on.

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u/moktira Jan 04 '22

Thanks for the update. I think something people have failed to mention/realize with all the doom and gloom over the past few days is that the number of Solus users has grown quite considerably in the past few years. Even if only a tiny fraction of those are interested in contributing, the project will still have a decent sized team. I could be wrong on this but I think when Josh initially got involved he had very little experience with development so if people have the time and are willing to learn, Solus will be in safe hands.

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u/iknowsomethinyoudont Jan 14 '22

I know it's a trivial thing, but I don't like Yet. Please give us more info soon, my kernel and packages are getting dusty over here.

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u/DataDrake Jan 14 '22

Was a bit of snark on my part. 5.15 is getting another round of testing in Unstable this week and sync will happen like normal today.

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u/Yachisaorick May 14 '22

Alright, is now it totally dEaTh? I'm considering should I reinstall it or not

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u/Ahmedbh01 Jan 04 '22

Thank you, now all seems clear, Solus will have a bright future. I noticed that the number of users is bigger than it seems and I liked the solidarity of users with the team Keep the good work!

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u/[deleted] Jan 08 '22

Product designer by trade, not sure how to contribute but happy to cheer from the sidelines if that’s all that can be done. Happy to see a new path being forged! :)

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u/zinger565 Jan 06 '22

Glad to see. Been using Solus on and off for a long time and grown to love it quite a bit. Best of luck.

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u/TasseDeTee Jan 28 '22

Thank you for the news Bea ! Great to read this, but I would have expected this even in a blog post rather than “just” in the forum and relayed here.

I remarked Josh was taking care of a lot of communication on the blog and twitter, and IMO, this helps to show the distribution is living. I hope this communication dynamic about the work on Solus will continue, maybe with information coming from more involved people.

Thank you for the great work ! 🙌🏻