malfisya

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on Week 22, 2026 · c/solus · 3 pts · 105d

I have not used Mint in a long time, so I cannot really compare it. I think Solus works great (I am biased) for simple home use (a little bit office work, a little bit of gaming, a little bit of developing).

I think most of the software you mentioned are available natively on Solus repository except openwebui (not sure). I mostly play a single player game and emulation, so cannot say about those multiplayer games.

Do feel free to visit our forum (dicuss.getsol.us) to ask these questions. Many more peole are hanging out there.

Cheers!

Hey, thank you for trying Solus! As always feedback is welcome.

I do advise to not use the drive encryption, as it was bugged AF, it wouldn’t recognize my encryption password no matter how hard I tried

Yeah, this is known issue. We are in process of updating GRUB and Calamares. Also migrate the default from LUKS1 to LUKS2. Hopefully that will resolve this issue.

Cheers!

Other than gnome, I don't think there is any DE that restrict theming. You can go with Plasma, if you want to use GTK theme then there is Budgie, Cinnamon and Xfce.

Fun fact: Budgie on Solus used to be default using Plata-Noir which is material design inspired theme with pure black color scheme. It is not anymore becase the theme got unmaintained.

Since Gnome 40, you cannot change window theme via gnome-tweaks. You have to mess around with gtk.css file and manually edit it. I am sure there is easier way but I never looked into it.