Quoting: iiariI was originally a Solus backer, and I had hoped that Solus Budgie would become a kind of performance oriented Clean Linux for the masses. Without him there, I'm not exactly sure what Solus' mission is at this point or how they'll differentiate themselves from any other rolling system...

Solus (all flavors since they share the same core, toolchain, etc) is performance oriented in the sense that they use more aggressive settings that other distributions and that they borrow some of the optimizations made on ClearLinux. This is not going to change because the guy working on that Peter O'Connor (aka. sunnyflunk) is still there. It's funny how many people believe that only one guy does all the work alone (well there are plenty of them... on the dormant/discontinued distributions list of distrowatch because one or two people cannot develop, follow the updates and the vulnerabilities, handle bugs and resolves other problems, make roadmaps, etc... this 7/7 365 days a year meaning no holidays, no illness, nothing... it's just impossible).

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Quoting: iiariI think that's *kind of* a point of it. It's perhaps too curated for me. My workplace's software doesn't work on Solus (but works on every other distro) and I had lots of gaming issues on Solus when I was on it. Solus also broke my system with updates 3 times in about 4 months of use, while Manjaro (on testing) has yet to do that once for me.

If people like the Budgie DE (which, actually, I do a lot) I personally prefer the Ubuntu flavor of it (Ubuntu Budgie) with the terrific applets they've designed for it. Manjaro Budgie if you want to use the AUR and the Manjaro apps is excellent as well. That said, I give credit to Solus for starting to focus on Budgie again as they move to version 10.5 and start fixing some problems.

Again, I'm pulling for Solus, but I want them to do something different and I'm just not completely sure how they stand out in the Linux world right now...

Rolling: Arch, Manjaro, Antergos
Curated: Elementary
Newbie friendly: Mint, Deepin, Elementary
Flexible with tremendous options: Ubuntu
Corporate: Fedora

What is Solus doing those don't?

Usually when office software don't work it's because they are shipped only in .deb or .rpm package and usually rely on (quite old) libraries that are shipped with the releases of Ubuntu or Redhat for example. So I don't really understand why it would work on Arch-based distro but not on Solus.

Games usually work very well on Solus, issues reported on games where usually addressed quite fast and LSI has been originally created for this very specific purpose.

There are very few breakages on Solus because curated rolling means that all updates aren't just tested individually but the whole updates are tested globally before they are released on stable. In the same way Manjaro is also a kind of curated rolling in the sense that they wait a little to make sure there were no breakage on Arch before pushing the updates to their users. To my experience, most of the time the breakages affect individuals and the main causes are people cherry picking updates without knowing what they do and of course it ends by some shared libraries updated but keeping software built against older version of that libraries that don't work anymore, or people updating modifying the stateless configuration files that are of course overwritten by some updates (because most people don't know/understand that principle) and lastly hardware issues (the Solus team is small and doesn't have lot of different hardware to test against so it happens that such issue occurs). The question is did you report the problems you faced so they could be addressed and fixed for everyone?

Regarding Ubuntu Budgie applets & co, it's a pity that they kept working on their own and did not upstream their work and make it distro agnostic. It would have been nice to have Budgie as cross-distro collaborative project and it is sad imho that Solus had to take back the project under their umbrella [External Link].

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It's available in the Solus repository [External Link]. Better use native packages when available !

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Quoting: MaCroX95Speaking about that, we must take into account that total number of PCs in the world is probably rising more than it ever has, every person in the family in the western world probably owns their own PC at least a laptop and if we take into account that number of Windows PC is increasing, number of Linux PCs has been increasing at the higher rate since we've gained some marketshare (more than ever actually, now we are actually at about stable 2% which is not a small number, considering that there are 3+ billions of working PCs out there...)

The budget of the families isn't expandable and unlike a decade ago most people also buy smartphones, tablets, ... The money spent on these devices is probably money that is not spent in renewing/purchasing new computers. Also with such devices that can be used for leisures, browsing the web, sending mails, e-commerce, e-banking, etc... it is less important to have a computer (my sister in law resigned her fixed internet when her laptop died a year ago... she now only use her smartphone with mobile data at home and use her office computer when she really needs one).
According to Gartner, PC sales declined for eight consecutive quarters [External Link]

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While talking about stats, according to Net Applications, the market share of Linux on Desktop remains above 2% for 5 months now [External Link]

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Seems nice...

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Any improvement to the "AI" in this game is welcome because it seems they initially forgot the "I" ;-)
I can't wait trying this patch! :-)

In the other hand, I regret there is so much focus on battles/war. I would have loved to see diplomacy developed, trade, spying to eventually steal alien technologies, etc.

But still I love this game very much and it runs perfectly fine on my old laptop !!!

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