With the latest release of Solus, I feel I should ask. I have had my eye on this particular distro for some time now. I even did a test installation about two years ago, but it didn’t feel as complete as I needed it to be.
I am looking for a solid, beginner-friendly rolling Linux distribution for general use. Multimedia, gaming, coding etc. Do you recommend Solus? If so, why? Why not? Looking forward to your thoughts.
Solus didn’t die. Source: Solus Blog
Thank you for your suggestion of Tumbleweed (I assume you are writing about). Checking that out as well.
Tumbleweed is awesome! It’s really stable and polished while being rolling so you’ll get the latest and greatest.
I’ve just recently landed there myself (though I’ve liked Tumbleweed for a long time) in am attempt to see how long I can go without needing Windows. So far it’s getting great.
If you have an nvidia card you’ll have to install the drivers yourself but it’s not hard.
https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:NVIDIA_drivers
I think they mean the fact that the development team has seen some shuffling and the project stagnated for a bit. I love Budgie, which comes from Solus, but I’d rather use it on a different distro than using Solus, which seems a bit off-balance at the moment. Give them time to stabilize before trying them.