SolidXK: the best new Linux distro?

schoolje, the main maintainer of this distro, previously worked on Linux Mint, creating the "unofficial" versions of Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) based on KDE y XFCE. As these would hardly receive "official" support from Linux Mint, Schoelje decided to create a distro of his own. Thus was born solydxk.

SolydXK comes in two flavors: solydx (XFCE) and solydk (KDE). This choice is not accidental, part of the idea that GNOME 3, Unity and Cinnamon are part of the past.

Basic data

  • Flavors: XFCE and KDE
  • Based on: Debian Testing
  • Updates: Rolling release
  • Packages: DEB
  • Package manager: same as Linux Mint

The choice of Debian Testing is ideal, giving great stability to the system. On the other hand, by having "rolling release" updates, it is not necessary to reinstall the system every X months, as happens every time a new version of Ubuntu or Linux Mint is released.

The SolydXK update manager sits on the system bar and informs us when there are new updates available.

This gives SolydXK a perfect balance between stability and system update, without interfering with user activities and without requiring reinstallation every time a new version is released.

Installer

The installer is very simple and robust. Not much to add. It fulfills its function and does it without complications.

SolydXK Installer - Time Zone Settings

SolydXK Installer - Time Zone Settings

Default applications

  • Internet and mail: Firefox and Thunderbird
  • Office automation: Abiword + Gnumeric (SolydX) / LibreOffice (SolydK)
  • Video: VLC
  • Audio: Exaile (SolydX) / Amarok (SolydK)
  • Games: Steam / PlayOnLinux Installer (SolydK)
  • Semantic Desktop: Synapse (SolydX) / Nepomuk (SolydK)

The choice of applications is something very personal, this is a truism. For that reason, I don't think it is a crucial element to consider when choosing a Linux distribution. In short, if there is an application that you really need, you simply install it and go.

However, while I am not a fan of games, I found the idea of ​​introducing a Steam installer very interesting. ANOTHER modern distribution - like Manjaro that has it pre-installed - that finds out that Steam came to Linux (ha!) And makes things easy for gamers! Without a doubt, it is a great idea to promote Linux in the burgeoning gaming community.

This fact alone makes SolydXK a distro to consider. As if this were not enough, SolydK comes with PlayOnLinux, the application that allows you to run installation scripts for Windows games and programs through Wine.

Visual aspect

The visual style of both flavors (SolydX and SolydK) is very reminiscent of KDE.

SolydX in action

SolydX in action

SolydK in action

SolydK in action

Personal Touch: The Welcome Screen

The way I see it, the "personal touch" of this distro is the welcome screen. How can it be possible that almost no distro has this that is so, so basic? The distro is presented, the coordinates of the places where to ask for help or collaborate with the development of the system are given and, above all, we are given the possibility of installing the extra drivers that are needed. Impeccable!

SolidXK Welcome Screen

SolidXK Welcome Screen

What is missing?

Possibly the weakest point of this distro is speed, especially at system startup. It goes without saying that SolydX is faster than SolydK and that, obviously, SolydX has no point of comparison with the speed that we can obtain in Ubuntu or similar. Still, it felt a bit "heavy."

Another disadvantage is that once installed, the system is in English. Likewise, it is very easy to configure the language. Just install the packages corresponding to Spanish.

Download

For more information I recommend taking a look at the page official project website. Especially, to the section Tutorials and Forums That can be of GREAT help, as long as English is not a problem, of course.

Download SolydX
Download SolydK

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  1.   elav said

    SolidX accomplishes something I always wanted Kubuntu and Xubuntu to accomplish: Identity. In other words, they were supposed to be Ubuntu with a different flavor and the correct thing would have been for them to maintain a similar appearance. But we all know that it has never been like that, each one has gone to his own ball. For separate projects there is no problem, but if everything was buntu, well.

    On SolidXK, the fact that it is based on Debian Testing is a plus, as long as it doesn't freeze. However, it is a very interesting project, as is Tanglu (which nevertheless moves).

    1.    let's use linux said

      What else to add to elav's Galilean comment?
      Just give this distro a try… it looks good.

    2.    eliotime3000 said

      What I don't like about Kubuntu and Xubuntu is their slow processing of .deb packages that those distros have. I hope that is fixed with that distro, although the concept of using only KDE and XFCE was originally from Slackware.

  2.   Germaine said

    If I had seen this distribution last week ... now I have Kubuntu 13.10 Alpha 2 installed and I have it well configured but ... the distros tester bug is biting me ...

  3.   Ricardo said

    Oh God it looks fantastic, it looks like they make things a little easier for the user. Although the inconvenience of speed will take away customers, but it is still promising !!

    Very good post, thanks for presenting it

  4.   jf said

    What version of Kde do you have?

    1.    eliotime3000 said

      The 4.8 that for now is in Jessie or the 4.10, which must be the current version.

  5.   Yoyo said

    I tried both, very good but they couldn't tie me @ _ @

    1.    elav said

      I didn't get to test it and now using Arch Linux, I highly doubt that I will. But if one day I return to Debian, without a doubt I will 😀

      1.    let's use linux said

        Arch, arch… it's impossible to get rid of the rolling release… and the simplicity of pacman / aur.
        Haha…

        1.    pandev92 said

          At one point I got rid of arch today to see that the free driver, it will use the kernel that it will use, it will restart the pc alone, xD and incidentally I asked for a change of processor ..., but in windows it is working ok, so I take it for granted a shit from amd.

          1.    yukiteru said

            I see that you do not have it easy with your gpu @ pandev92. A sad situation for AMD, I was a user of their CPUs for more than 10 years, but at this moment, I am not leaving Intel + NVIDIA for the world.

          2.    pandev92 said

            @Yukiteru, in November with the money of my godparents, I buy a nvidia xD gpu and I get rid of the problem!

          3.    to that said

            You could post your concerns or problems in the Vi0l0 thread, perhaps it will solve your problems (particular), there are a number of patches, which arose from very particular problems (such as excess writing), in what the thread takes. I'm doing well with arch with about amd. Although there are things that I have to pull from the virtual machine and with some xp, but because sadly there is no equivalent in linux, although with amd, everything is fine, although also, due to the requirements of my next project I will go to an intel, most likely intel / intel, and second option intel / nvidia.
            regards
            PS: I stay from the other post, did you watch xvba-video?

          4.    pandev92 said

            If I looked at it @aca, I already spoke with violo, the problems are simply that the amd driver is very very very wrong with gnome shell and there the only solution would be to use the free driver, but the free driver restarts my pc ..., so I don't know the truth. I already put a bug report in freedesktop.

  6.   diazepam said

    In case tanglu doesn't flourish, I would recommend this distro or LMDE. I have good memories of that.

  7.   Yoyo said

    I'm not leaving Manjaro anymore, I stopped distrohopping, in Manjaro you live very well, without tension.

    But if one day I have to recommend any derivatives of the great Debian, these will be present.

    1.    let's use linux said

      Without a doubt ... very good distros.

    2.    elav said

      This .. and Pisi?

    3.    eliotime3000 said

      I haven't suffered from distrohopping in a long time. Still, the derivatives of quality matrix distros like LMDE, Manjaro and the like are really spectacular.

    4.    cooper15 said

      Don't bother my dear Yoyo, but if I remember correctly you said the same with SolusOS, etc Hahaha… And as the saying goes, only rivers are not returned.

    5.    dbertua said

      I have to test MANJARO on my EVEREX CE1201V Netbook.
      If I'm not mistaken it is based on ARCH but it is easier.
      Would ARCH be what Ubuntu is to Debian?

  8.   Hades said

    Another one of the bunch, hopefully and the distros that do not contribute anything disappear.

    1.    Yoyo said

      The same I say with users who comment and do not contribute anything and on top of that Windoleros, hopefully they will disappear.

      1.    elav said

        Do not be provoked !!

        1.    eliotime3000 said

          Sorry, but I already launched my catapult with a fireball.

      2.    eliotime3000 said

        That Linux has become a commercial niche is a miracle; that the windowsers are eradicated is as if it were the second coming of Christ. You have to go by steps.

    2.    eliotime3000 said

      cd / dev / null

      Problem solved.

  9.   mario said

    I have SolydK installed on my laptop
    wife, an old Dell Vostro and goes to a million.
    Everything works great: the effects,
    office automation and the internet. For me Excellent !!

  10.   aleqwerty said

    Interesting, although I agree with the article, it still lacks speed. Linux Mint 64 XFCE really flies and well optimized consumes less than 200MB at startup.

    1.    let's use linux said

      It all depends on the tastes and needs of each one. Crunchbang is another excellent alternative for those who need an ultra-fast distro (with openbox). At the beginning it only occupies 80 mb of ram. And there are other distros that consume even less than this ... it really depends on the hardware that one has, and where the necessary balance between speed and comfort of use of the system is for each of us.
      Cheers! Paul.

  11.   Blazek said

    We will have to try it, at the moment it seems very interesting.

    1.    let's use linux said

      Yes, it may still be a little green ... but it has great potential.

      1.    Blazek said

        I have already been testing it in a virtual machine and I must admit that they have done a good job with the distro, they manage to make a debian test usable for ordinary users. Using the oxygen theme in xfce is a very good idea, since you get integration with both gtk and qt4 applications. To my liking, it lacks the option to encrypt the hard drive and use logical volumes during installation. In addition, it has a series of its own configuration tools that help a lot when building the system. It is certainly the new LMDE.

  12.   phenobarbital said

    It strikes me for the continuous use, however, it is striking that someone says that Gnome3 is the past and in the same sentence name XFCE, which is still based on GTK2 in the current version.
    But certainly the distro is well polished, I will install it on my wife's laptop.

    1.    let's use linux said

      Perhaps it was unhappy to say that GNOME 3 is "the past." Obviously 3 is always more than 2, right? Haha… what I meant to say is that these types of distros are based on the fact that GNOME 3 did not finish being accepted by the community. At least it wasn't in the same terms as GNOME 2, for example.
      In that sense, I say that this distro is based on the idea that GNOME 3, Unity and Cinnamon did not work. The alternative? XFCE, which has been around for a long time, has good support, has a visual appearance similar to the usual GNOME ... and consumes less resources (although not much less than GNOME 2).

  13.   auroszx said

    They could have told me about this a week ago, they would have saved me a lot of effort. Looks good.

    1.    let's use linux said

      Ha! Well hey, I don't have the magic ball ... haha

  14.   yukiteru said

    It looks good, but I prefer Debian, I don't like being on the mother distro anymore.

    As for Arch, naaahhh I want to go back, I'll see if he catches me again with my new pc.

    1.    eliotime3000 said

      In that you are right, although 4 years ago my love affair with Debian Stable began, and it has not let me down like Ubuntu did.

      For now, I'm still on stable Debian and Slackware.

      1.    yukiteru said

        The precise reason why I started using Debian was Ubuntu ... at that time the fresh thing out of the oven was Debian Etch and I must say that Debian has not disappointed me or disappointed me at all.

        Slackware is another story, I used it but everything was already installed, although I want to take a look at it, the problem is KDE… I don't like it but not a bit.

        1.    eliotime3000 said

          Well, first I started using Mandrake as the distro with which I got to know GNU / Linux. Afterwards, I ventured into Debian and it did a lot better than Mandrake; Ubuntu was the third distro with which I tried to find that feeling that Debian gave me, but it was useless, since it was just as slow as Mandrake (today Mandriva), and the truth is that Debian Stable has not disappointed me at all (or crazy think that I go to Debian Testing or Unstable, what I have to deal with with Windows Vista is more than enough).

          1.    yukiteru said

            Hahahaha don't compare Debian Testing with Windows Vista please that's a cruel insult @ eliotime3000. I also thought the same as you at one time, that Debian Testing or SID were problematic, that nothing worked, that it would freeze and crash all the time, but the truth is that no, it is very stable and I do not complain about anything about those branches , really surprised by the stability of the system.

  15.   eliotime3000 said

    Good the distro although I hope they optimize the speed of processes of the packages. For now, I'm still on Debian Wheezy without major problems, although any Debian and Ubuntu derivatives are always welcome.

    1.    let's use linux said

      This is really a worthwhile distro (within Debian derivatives). The other, Crunchbang. Without a doubt…

      1.    eliotime3000 said

        Really, both have their own personalities, but the one that has attracted me the most has been Crunchbang because of the minimalism that is used with the openbox.

  16.   alex said

    A distro based on debian testing for that better use debian testing even though sid is not bad and quite stable, for me these distros only come pre-installed things that you might not even use so that you use the child if the parent is debian

    1.    yukiteru said

      The truth is that if, in my current pc I am running with SID and without major problems, the only bug I have is with the auto-mounting of the cdrom, I have already fiddled with, and it seems that there is some incompatibility between kernel 3.10, udev, udisk and consolekit , since each of those packages tells me something different when I try to mount or unmount the cdrom, in the end a mount per console solves everything but ... bug is bug.

      1.    eliotime3000 said

        No thanks. I'd rather stick with the stability and comfort that Debian Stable and its reliable backports give me.

        1.    yukiteru said

          You enjoy that stability of Stable because of the many testers of those branches… and being one of them I feel like Kirk in Star Trek… looking for bugs where nobody has looked before.

          By the way, the bug is with kernel 3.10, in 3.9 that I am using everything goes smoothly.

          1.    eliotime3000 said

            Well, thank you very much for making Debian the operating system that leaves Ubuntu and OSX on their knees in the face of its robustness.

          2.    VaryHeavy said

            By the way, is there a fairly simple way to install Debian from a bootable USB? Because so far I have done it without problems with OpenSUSE, Linux Mint, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Lubuntu, Chakra, Sabayon and I do not know if I forget any, but with Debian I have not succeeded. That is, when it reaches the last step of the installation, I get a message saying that it has not found the CD-ROM or something like that and it forces me to abort the installation.

            So far I have burned the ISOs to USB using Unetbootin, SUSE Imagewriter, Fat-Live-USB or Linux Live USB Creator, and Debian has been the only one that has given me problems when it comes to burning them to USB with any of these programs. .

          3.    mitcoes said

            veryheavy try with Multisystem - deb - MULTIBOOT script instructions on pendrivelinux or if you have a copy of MS WOS yumi

            All three allow multi-ISO USBs booting from GRUB

          4.    yukiteru said

            @ eliotime3000 it is not worth thanks to the developers the merit is theirs… I am just one of the Bug Hunters 😀

          5.    yukiteru said

            @VaryHeavy that happened to me, the solution is very simple although somewhat elaborate, you need to go to the installation command line and modify a line from the sources.list, directing the installation of packages from the cdrom to a path, in in this case the installation path on your pendrive.

            The other much easier way is to use the USB installation images, which you can find here:

            http://www.debian.org/CD/live/

        2.    VaryHeavy said

          I was looking to install the Testing version, but there I only see the Stable edition. No ISOs for Debian Testing USB?

    2.    let's use linux said

      Well, the reasons for "going over" are explained in the article. This distro includes things that Debian does not have. For example, better integration with gaming platforms or a simple driver installation procedure, etc. Maybe they are things that do not interest you or that may seem trivial to more advanced Linux users, but for many it can make a difference. Similarly, I agree: Debian rocks!
      Hug! Paul.

      1.    mitcoes said

        I think you have to correct a detail, Manjaro comes with Steam pre-installed which "beats" an installation script.

        "Finally someone who found out that Steam came to Linux (ha!) And makes things easy for gamers!"

        Show an awareness that does not benefit you at all

        I would change it for «ANOTHER modern distribution - like Manjaro that has it pre-installed - who finds out ...

        Although the edition runs on your account

        1.    let's use linux said

          Corrected! 🙂

  17.   edo said

    This distro seems interesting to me, it is a pre-built debian test for the end user, if it is similar to mint, then it may not need to be configured much, which is good.
    Regarding Steam, this program is pre-installed in Manjaro 😉

    1.    let's use linux said

      Interesting ... did not remember! Thanks for the information ...

  18.   The Pure Truth said

    More fragmentation for Linux ...

    1.    dwarf said

      I would love, adore, make a totem to whoever explains to me with discretion What is fragmentation in GNU / Linux?

      Seriously, I'm sick of the same thing, that every time they see a new distro they jump with the typical comments of "More fragmentation" ... I can't deny the fragmentation in this ecosystem, but to call the variety of distros "fragmentation" is indeed ridiculous, and I explain why:

      In fact, fragmenting a system is about separating its basic components and making each other inoperable, so if we are going to talk about a real fragmentation, we can say that it exists in things like meta-packages such as DEB and RPM, since they are things that They do exactly the same thing (or have the same purpose) and they are separated, systems are created based on one or the other, there if we can call it fragmentation.

      Another example is what comes with Mir and Wayland, gentlemen, X.org, as ugly, fat and messy as it is, it is a standard that has been shared in absolutely all the distros so far and propose a break point that makes take one way or the other, will in effect create real fragmentation ...

      I am not going to go deeper, but if I say that these comments are, by the way, "frusleros" as we say here.

      PS: another thing, I'm not going to allow any more ghost email comments like "adfafgdasfhy@loquesea.com", nobody spies here and that can be taken as spam.

      1.    quebec said

        The same thing that you comment on the types of packages also applies to the distributions, even so, you have to give them some time to know if they are more of the same or offer something different.
        At first I like it to only release 2 versions and not one for each desktop / shell environment and whatever else comes across it, although I would have liked it to join an existing distribution and help improve it rather than create another, since most of the new and novel distributions end up being the same as there was nothing but another name and new wallpaper.

      2.    itachi said

        Nano you are more right than a saint, I totally agree +1

      3.    elav said

        Man, in all the time I've known you, this has been the most sensible and objective comment I've seen you write.

        1.    let's use linux said

          Gentlemen ... I always answer the same ...
          Someone complained to nature about the "fragmentation" of women in the world? On the contrary, better, one for everyone's taste ... and the discussion is over! Haha…
          Hug! Paul.

          1.    TT said

            For me, Pablo's comment has been the most sensible! haha well it is true each distro has its own and each one their tastes, as well as desktops etc .. but with regard to X.org is right nano should improve it or create a standard alternative that all distros follow.

            Good is my opinion ^^

          2.    Daniel Bertua said

            FANTASTIC !!!

            I "steal" the phrase or idea, from today forever.
            NEVER better explained.

    2.    mitcoes said

      And thank you, we want to BE ABLE TO CHOOSE and change when we like something new more.

      Despite the multidiscipline, the behavior of two Linux distros is more similar than that of two computers running the same version of MS WOS, but with different programs installed because the MS WOS REGISTRATION system alters performance according to the installed programs.

      So we could say that there is more documentation in MS WOS apart from its 10 versions of MSWOS 8/7 / Vista than there are 24.

      The 5 most used GNU / Linux distros Debian, Ubuntu and derivatives, Fedora, SUSE, and ARCH and derivatives represent more than 95% of desktop users and Debian / Ubuntu and Fedora / SUSE can be considered together.

      It is not so much compared to the 5 x64 versions of MS WOS with the difference that everything can be used in each one of GNU / Linux and not everything in MS WOS

      And MS WOS is not doing bad at all, it still has almost 90% of the desktop, hopefully it will lower it but it does

  19.   cooper15 said

    I think it is very good, as a good Debianite I will try it only to later recommend it;) I just don't like one thing, the wallpapers, they are really ugly, but that's personal haha.

  20.   German alvar said

    I am about to test this distribution, since I am passionate about Kde, but will it get along with our graphics cards? You know what I mean.

    On the other hand I think it is a good idea, that it is a "rolling release" distribution. I am very happy with my Kubuntu 12.04 but it is true that it is a pain to go about formatting every six months.

    Greetings.

    1.    mitcoes said

      I have switched to Manjaro but Ubuntu ALLOWS to update the distribution WITH A COMMAND and without formatting.

      If you format for pleasure or because it is faster to have / home apart and create a backup of PPAs with YPPA manager in / home, to
      restoring them with the updated distro is for CHOICE or COMFORT but not for NEED

      1.    yukiteru said

        Ubuntu updated with a dist-upgrade. No thanks, the monstrosity that comes out of those options is not a pleasant chimera.

      2.    let's use linux said

        It is true but it is proven that dist-upgrade can bring several problems. This is why many people prefer to install from scratch every time. : S
        Regards!

        1.    Daniel Bertua said

          I am one of those who prefers to install from scratch.
          I have "/" separated from "/ home", and the first thing I do from Live is to delete everything that is not mine, removing everything that is

        2.    Daniel Bertua said

          Sorry, I missed the finger ...
          Again…

          I am one of those who prefers to install from scratch.
          I have "/" separated from "/ home", and the first thing I do from Live is to delete everything that is not mine, removing everything that the distro puts (hidden files and directories).

          I repeat, it doesn't take more than half an hour and you make sure you have a Clean system.

    2.    Daniel Bertua said

      Yes, it takes like half an hour;), which is an eternity.

      I take it as a "healthy binary exercise."
      My main distro is Kubuntu 64-bit, and the LTS pass like the others, since they also have bugs.

      It is known that a Linux user worth his salt likes to kick the anthill once everything is calm and stable.
      At least on desktop machines, obviously you are not going to be playing with a server.

      Anyway, I wouldn't mind seeing what the "rolling release" theme is like.

  21.   alex said

    Yukiteru that bug that you mention the truth, I just read it to me personally, it works well for me, mount cdrom normally, maybe you should take a look at the configuration, for me the driver installation is quite simple and the only driver that I had to install manually were the ones from my multinational, the others all automatically with the installation of the OS if they start to know well debian and its 3 branches (stable testing and sid) they will see that it is quite versatile and has everything you need I have an unstable sid branch so it does not have nothing unstable is as stable as testing, debian is Rolling release only they don't dare to use testing and much less to use sid for my sid is going great to be beta

    1.    yukiteru said

      The bug is already reported, and as I said it is an incompatibility with kernel 3.10, it is nothing really annoying, but there it is. With kernel 3.9, things go smoothly, and from what I know, the problem will be solved when the new udev arrives together with udisks from experimental, but you have to wait a while, until they lower it to unstable, while it's my turn live with kernel 3.9.

      Now, why I present the bug, along with a few "chosen" can be explained by my chipset, a VIA P4M890, an old and widely used cheap motherboard chipset that has given me several headaches not only in Testing and SID, but also in Stable, which sometimes gives errors to do a correct time spin with IDE hard drives, and even with Arch, where he had the same problem with time spins in DD IDE, the errors in these distros are They correct by changing the kernel, but the icing on the cake is Fedora, which never, but never started, not even fiddling with the startup lines, and I don't know if it was because of the Nvidia (8400 GS) or the fucking chipset. My last version of Fedora was Core 5, from then on I don't know a Fedora that I can install on one of my machines.

      1.    eliotime3000 said

        … Cofcof; via; cofcof…. ... cofcof; Pc Chips; cofcof ...

        Seriously, on Squeeze that chipset was causing Debian to freeze when opening heavy applications like Amarok and it was a FATAL headache. Also, my previous PC had only 32 MB of video and as a "good mainboard" that was my 1st Chips PC. generation, had to suffer the consequences of suffering with an insufferable video and a chipset that made Debian an Ubuntu-like OS (and on top of that, I gave it the ext3 file system).

        1.    yukiteru said

          In my case, it's VIA and Biostar, and if I suffered for a while with the S3 Graphics, 64 MB, until I bought the Nvidia and with that I have survived more or less well until now.

  22.   giskard said

    I installed it on a disk to test it; yes, SolydX, because well away with KDE (who is offended) and it was very good. Quick and all. Some details that are reported in the forums but have not been resolved yet. One thing I did not like (and did not report) is that the fans do not turn on when they should (as they do in Xubuntu).
    In the end, and for work reasons, I had to uninstall it and use that disk for something else that brings me money.

  23.   cat said

    So as not to spend half an hour or more configuring XFCE in Debian Testing, SolidX looks pretty good, ideal for novice users who want to try Debian and like XFCE but don't have the courage or knowledge to configure XFCE.

  24.   sieg84 said

    another .deb more.

    1.    eliotime3000 said

      Nothing better than the matrix distro. It is a really sensational experience

  25.   User said

    Downloading…

  26.   b1tblu3 said

    Seriously, I did not leave Arch for nothing ... I came to stay and I had no need to suffer from distrohopping ... I tried Mint, Ubuntu, and then Arch, it's been almost two years and here I got my anchor ... as I have hardware from prehistory ... Slitaz and Slitaz Rolling and WOW… I was amazed, how the apps run on my PC, almost instantly even Firefox, on the Rolling, Gimp 2.8 runs great and all the apps, I was seduced to leave Arch… but I passed the test … Although I am seriously thinking about installing Slitaz sharing the same swap and home that Arch has.

    1.    cat said

      Pacman simply falls in love 😀

  27.   Mauricio Baeza said

    Is GNOME3 part of the past? A rather risky idea ... time will tell ...

    1.    elav said

      It seems that few understood the context in which Pablo said that GNOME3 is part of the past.

    2.    let's use linux said

      Che, don't take it literally. It is figuratively. I meant that much of the community did not finish swallowing GNOME 3. This is evident in the number of alternative projects that have emerged in recent times: MATE, Cinnamon, Unity, Razor-qt, etc.

      1.    VaryHeavy said

        But Razor-Qt did not emerge as an alternative to GNOME, but rather as the lightweight alternative to KDE.

  28.   berny424 said

    Testing user agent. I hope not to bother

    1.    berny424 said

      testing useragent

      1.    let's use linux said

        1, 2, 3… testing. 🙂

  29.   darkar said

    Very good distro, even though it is a bit slow

  30.   xarlieb said

    I tried them shortly after they came out (well, SolidX, because xfce rocks) but they are the same as mint or ubuntu. too many things that I don't use and I don't want to have to uninstall by hand.

    that's why I'm sticking with debian stable. a minimal system installation and then under desktop applications and others from the repos. Too bad sometimes the software can be a bit old (xfce4.10 is soooo more mature than eel 4.8 🙁)

    by the way is there any new news about Tanglu? looks like an interesting project 🙂

    Cheers and up Debian!

  31.   Diego said

    That splash screen looks really good, I must say if it gives it a real personal touch (Y)

    Cheers(:

    1.    jonasgamma said

      And it is not only the welcome screen, they have their own applications to manage the drivers, the kernel, the plymouth, the LightDM.

  32.   da3m0n said

    Meh another Debian / Ubuntu ... so I couldn't say it's new

  33.   Angel_Le_Blanc said

    Sportan KDE and XFCE, ah, what a coincidence, like in Slackware.

    1.    eliotime3000 said

      But Slackware was the pioneer in demonizing GNOME (exactly, in 2005), and the truth is that its hunch was correct.

  34.   dbertua said

    It comes to me barbarian, bajanding….

    I recently bought a used mini Netbook, EVEREX CE1201 for $ 125 (approx).
    With 7 C1,2-M processor,! Gb of RAM, and 60 Gb of HD.
    And almost all VIA (sound, video, etc, no intel or amd), well enough to complicate Linux. It came with XP OEM, which passed away, for obvious "technical" reasons, insecurity, obsolescence, etc., in addition to the "ethical" ones, within which any linuxero softwarelibrero tries to stay.

    I tell you that Kubuntu 13.04 is perfect banking, which works much faster, smoother and more stable than the XP it brought.

    Kubuntu detected all the hardware "automagically", except the audio that although it detects, it does not sound. Apparently it is a kernel bug (also present in other distributions), which will supposedly be fixed in future versions.

    I put Linux MINT 12 into it and EVERYTHING works perfectly, without having to configure anything manually, but ... it's "old", and saying "old" in the Linux world is something very strange, because "old" can also be that "Newer" than Windows 7, which could not be tested directly on this little machine.

    Now that I know that Linux MINT 12 runs WITHOUT PROBLEMS, I continue with the tests of other distros, and I wanted one with LXDE (Lubuntu 13.04 is the one I liked the most), or with XFCE and preferably based on DEBIAN.
    Which brings me to this Distro that they comment: SolidX, which I will gladly try, hoping that it stays and that the audio works.

    You could also try SolidK but changing KDE to RAZOR-QT.
    It is not that KDE is wrong, it is that at least in Kubuntu, it adopts an interface that although it is not difficult, I do not like it too much, I suppose that due to the resolution of the screen, which is a paltry 800 x 480.

    Greetings and thanks for the suggestion.

    1.    carlos ferra said

      install LMDE you will not regret it.

  35.   jonasgamma said

    I do not share the disadvantages that you mention in the article. In fact, if you compare it with Ubuntu, the startup is much faster in my case and all the operation of the distro as such. I use SolydX.

    The system does come in Spanish, if from the installation you put it in Spanish.

  36.   carlos ferra said

    It is equal to LMDE from the looks of it. for now I am satisfied with linux mint based on debian ... I still try other distros. But this change the cover of the applications by default does not advance anything all linuxers do. It seems to me that we have to work more on other things: peripheral recognition (webcam, printers, etc.) to be able to make videoconferences on Facebook, and more ...