Solus is a Linux distribution built from scratch. It uses a forked version of the PiSi package manager, referred to as “eopkg” within Solus, and a custom desktop with environment called "Budgie", and was originally developed for distribution only.
The Budgie desktop mimics the look and feel of the GNOME desktop 2. Distribution is only available for 64 bit computers. In general, the distribution has impressive graphics and according to other reviews the Budgie desktop is particularly beautiful and functional.
I tried the distribution in the Gnome flavor, as previously when I tried Budgie it was impossible to switch languages in the traditional way using Alt+Shift. Searching the internet I found out that this particular one problem too many people had it, and the project developer wasn't all that interested in this particular 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 repository software. It is similar to Debian's dpkg with apt and seems quite easy to use. You can easily install applications with the command sudo eopkg install name-application. The Solus repository is full of popular applications that by the way are always in the latest version.
The distribution also has a graphical Software Center similar to the Ubuntu Software Center 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/
