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To sum up: Solus 4 was originally due November 2017. That didn't happen. Ikey, the main and only full time Solus developer, began focusing on improving himself and withdrawing from the Late Night Linux podcast and social media. In July, he moved back to England. In late July, Ikey deleted the remainder of his social media presence and mostly vanished.
In late August, Solus suffered a major Internet outage. Unfortunately, the only person's name on the OVH hosting account is Ikey. The other core Solus Linux team members had/have no access. After five hours, Ikey came out of hiding and said that the OVH servers suffered hard freezes. Everything was back up again, but Ikey disappeared again.
In early September, Solus suffered a second major Internet outage. It turned out that Ikey stopped making payments to OVH. The other core team members opened up a new domain name and web site, getsol.us, and spread word on social media to people. On September 7th, Ikey made contact with the other core team members and said that he paid OVH for another thirty days, but that he was "very very sick." That was the last time anyone has heard from Ikey. I personally had no idea about any of this because the only social media I use is MeWe.
In mid-September, the entire Solus Linux project was moved over to the getsol.us domain name and new servers, and a new Solus Linux version 3.9999 was released.
Unfortunately, the two remaining core Solus Linux developers have no access to the original solus-project.com domain name, the G Suite e-mail service, nor the Patreon and PayPal accounts which are both in Ikey's name only.
Yesterday, the call went out by the remaining core Solus Linux developers asking people to cease donating to the Solus Linux Patreon. I've personally been donating $$ per month to it for a year now. It turns out they have no access to it and have no idea what the state of funding is. Posts went up on the Solus Linux Patreon page's community section yesterday telling people to pull their pledges.
So with Solus Linux's main developer gone without a trace, it certainly doesn't look good for what was my favorite Linux distribution. I am not sure what to do now. The obvious choice is Ubuntu MATE since I've been using MATE, but I do not care for Ubuntu for various reasons.
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It reminds me the discussions for about every project with a benevolent dictator, "what happens if he get hit by a bus". Apparently there is not always a plan about that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor
Have you tried Manjaro? Also KDE is in a VERY good shape nowadays, so I could not recommend enough Manjaro KDE to at least try.
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I'd recommend Arch or Antergos over Manjaro though as Manjaro has weird package holdups and their own repositories, which can sometimes conflict with the AUR when Manjaro holds packaged from updating and also with nvidia GPU drivers from AUR theres issues with Manjaro as they have their own weird thingy to install them. But other than that Manjaro should be solid experience also.
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I am using both Manjaro and Arch. Antergos did not went well when I tried. I would say unless you are doing something really weird there is no conflict with the AUR and in some cases Manjaro may be even better than Arch at it as it may support a few things as a distro. The thing about nvidia I would say they are different, I would not say better or worse, I would say try and see.
My actual biggest fear about Manjaro was the bus factor but that was a few years ago. Manjaro is doing great. I have not tried Solus but for what I know manjaro would be the closest to that experience I think. I am not recommending it just as a good distro but even more as something that may be close in principles with Solus.
If you are not much a fan of Ubuntu-based stuff, I also highly recommend an Arch-based one. My main rig has been Arch for several years now and I've never reinstalled, even though I've rebuilt the computer. My laptop has been running Antergos for over a year. I have three other towers that are running Manjaro. (That's a recent change. Two of them were previously Elementary OS and the other was Antergos.)
If you're at a point where you think you want an Arch-based system but are not sure which to choose, here's what I say:
-Choose Arch if you value the experience of building it yourself and having many choices along the way. It makes the system feel like it's yours. Your own. Your precious.
-If running pure Arch makes you feel good but you'd rather get on with it, go with Antergos.
-Choose Manjaro if you want a more refined delivery of the operating system -- from installation, to system preferences, to updates -- it's a better user experience for the regular guy. Oh, does "regular guy" offend you? Then, I guess you should start your Arch installation plan. :)
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Haha my main arch install was also made 1 computer ago and 2 hard drives ago.
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When it comes to donations through Patreon, they put a heads-up today stating that they now have access to the funds. https://www.reddit.com/r/SolusProject/comments/9t3xqx/update_on_patreon_followup_soon
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I didn't say it was not well or that it did not affect the infrastructure. I think you're mistaking me for OP.
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https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Solus-Open-Letter