The Solus Project version 1.2, released last month, shows considerable maturity in the homegrown Budgie desktop. Solus 1.2 is the second minor release in the Shannon series, built around a custom Budgie desktop developed in-house and the eopkg package manager forked from PiSi. Solus is a Linux distribution built from scratch. The Budgie desktop can be set to emulate the look and feel of the GNOME 2 desktop, but it is a different flavor from the GNOME 2-0 retread, MATE. It is tightly integrated with the GNOME stack.
Hi,
I'm using version 1.2 of Solus on a daily basis.
It's a beautiful no nonsense system.
I wanted to point out that the negative things addressed in the review don't show on my installation. I can resize windows to any size. The minimize button makes the open app disappear to the panel as it should and I do have virtual desktops: Just hit CTRL+ALT and arrow keys.
Maybe my version was slightly newer?
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Homegrown Budgie Desktop Shows Off the Beauty – and Beastliness – of Solus Simplicity
Posted by: Jack M. Germain July 29, 2016 05:00 AMThe Solus Project version 1.2, released last month, shows considerable maturity in the homegrown Budgie desktop. Solus 1.2 is the second minor release in the Shannon series, built around a custom Budgie desktop developed in-house and the eopkg package manager forked from PiSi. Solus is a Linux distribution built from scratch. The Budgie desktop can be set to emulate the look and feel of the GNOME 2 desktop, but it is a different flavor from the GNOME 2-0 retread, MATE. It is tightly integrated with the GNOME stack.
I'm using version 1.2 of Solus on a daily basis.
It's a beautiful no nonsense system.
I wanted to point out that the negative things addressed in the review don't show on my installation. I can resize windows to any size. The minimize button makes the open app disappear to the panel as it should and I do have virtual desktops: Just hit CTRL+ALT and arrow keys.
Maybe my version was slightly newer?
Thanks for giving us so many reviews!
Cheers!
Mike