Solus is a Linux distribution built from scratch. It uses a forked version of the PiSi package manager, referred to as "eopkg" in Solus, and a custom desktop environment called "Budgie", originally developed for distribution only.
The Budgie desktop mimics the look and feel of the GNOME 2 desktop. The distribution is only available for 64-bit computers. Overall the distribution has impressive graphics and according to others reviews Budgie desktop is particularly beautiful and functional.
I tested the Gnome flavor distribution, as I tried Budgie before, it was impossible to change language in the traditional way using Alt + Shift. Searching the web I found out that this problem was too many, and the developer of the project was not very interested in this change.
So since you can't teach an old dog new tricks, I decided that distribution is not for me.
Yesterday I saw the Gnome version and decided to try again, as with Gnome I never had a problem with the shortcuts. I did not install the distribution, but I passed the ISO to a USB and I tested the Live Edition. Yes the shortcut was there ..
As for the Live environment, it was not stable. There was a lot of crashing, Firefox closed itself while I was writing this post, and then wouldn't open. They tried to open it terminal to stop the ghost process, but the terminal wouldn't open. Tried opening the System Monitor GUI to stop the process from there, again no luck.
I do not want to offend the distribution as I did not install it, but the Live Edition was awful.
Package management is done by a Solus application called eopkg, as I mentioned above, and it has its own software repository. It is similar to Debian's dpkg with apt and seems quite easy to use. You can install easily applications με την εντολή sudo eopkg install application-name. The Solus repository is full of popular apps that are always on the latest version by the way.
The distribution also has a graphical Software Center that is similar to its Software Center Ubuntu or GNOME Software.
As I mentioned above, I do not want to offend the distribution, because despite all the difficulties I've encountered in the Live Edition, all the reviews I've read about Solus show it as a very impressive and credible project.
But I'm thinking of waiting for a while before I install it properly. If you want to do it earlier, here is the link for ISO:
You will find it in Budgie, GNOME and MATE
https://solus-project.com/download/
