For kicks this morning I installed Solus in VBox to check it out. I must say the installer and other things are quite good. Very quick to install and boot. I would totally recommend it for a beginner trying Linux.
A couple things I noticed:
The menu is very old-fashioned IMO. Looks like KDE4 or Windows XP.
Still, if a total noob wanted to get their feet wet with Linux, this wouldn't be a bad start. The website and docs seem top-notch and professional. The ISO is less than a gig, so there's not a whole lot of included software, but the software center seems easy to use and well thought out (unlike Discover ).
A couple things I noticed:
The menu is very old-fashioned IMO. Looks like KDE4 or Windows XP.
Using the liveISO, I install btrfs-tools using the software center and was notified of 4 needed dependencies. It installed 40+ things - the counter actually went to "41 of 4". Seems like a bug somewhere to me.
Even after pre-formatting, the installer reformatted the disk from btrfs back to ext4. This is a deal breaker for me. There's no way I could find to choose to not format the partition even though if you want custom partitioning, you can't do it from the installer. Basically, you can't install it to a multi-boot btrfs environment unless you partition for it first. So likely, it wouldn't install to subvolumes anyway - which cripples a btrfs install.
Even after pre-formatting, the installer reformatted the disk from btrfs back to ext4. This is a deal breaker for me. There's no way I could find to choose to not format the partition even though if you want custom partitioning, you can't do it from the installer. Basically, you can't install it to a multi-boot btrfs environment unless you partition for it first. So likely, it wouldn't install to subvolumes anyway - which cripples a btrfs install.
Still, if a total noob wanted to get their feet wet with Linux, this wouldn't be a bad start. The website and docs seem top-notch and professional. The ISO is less than a gig, so there's not a whole lot of included software, but the software center seems easy to use and well thought out (unlike Discover ).
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