[darklajid]

Can you explain what that (Solus) is? The website is rather light on details. Maybe a distribution. With three different DE editions, one being 'home-grown'.

I haven't found any information about the history of the project, if it's built from scratch or based on another distribution's work. Can't even figure that out by looking at the 'how to install software' documentation - it just gives a screenshot of a GUI package installer, no clue what the package manager is.

Searching Google for Solus (or Solus Project) comes up empty or with a survival game based on the Unreal 4 engine.

What is Solus?

Edit: While their website answered none of my questions, distrowatch and wikipedia did. Started as Debian based distribution, seems to be something completely new/different now.

[Fletch137]

It's not something I've used to any great extent, just that I use the steam runtime developed for it on my arch system and the lead developer has been a guest on a few podcasts I've listened to. That said, this is my impression of it so far:

Solus is a distribution built from scratch. I believe the main target is non-technical end users, rather than, say, servers or power users. What that quite equates to, I don't really know beyond missing certain development or server software from the base install and in some cases the repositories. I currently can't see a way to install external packages (like the AUR or PPAs). I've had a play with it for a couple of hours and it's pretty slick, with really fast start up times. It's probably not ready for you to hand to your Grandmother just yet, but it seems very user-friendly to me. I have it currently running on a laptop I gave to a friend around 4 months ago, and so far it's the only distribution I've been able to hand over to a non-technical user and not get called to fix/change/etc. every couple of weeks.

[onli]

Till OP answers have a look at https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=solus.