Readers of this blog will realize that I am a loyal user of Debian as distribution and Xfce , the Desktop Environment, but passion does not blind me, sometimes there are moments when I feel the absence of some functionalities that my favorite desktop lacks.
I do not use KDE for various reasons that are now irrelevant to mention, so I am Gnome. Gnome Shell I don't particularly like it at all, and although many users are happy with it, at least it seems to me that it is not designed for use on PC, so I could use other Shells as an alternative.
Based on my personal taste, I only have 3 options: Xfce (with its shortcomings, it is still my favorite desktop), Cinnamon (like Shell for Gnome) y Gnome classic o fallback. Unity could be a viable option if it were available in Debian, But is not the case. Cinnamon ya we saw that currently it cannot be installed on Debian, and it's a shame because he would be the ideal candidate and Gnome fallbackWell, it doesn't work as well as I would like and it has a lot of details to polish.
That's where it comes in SolusOS, a distribution of which we have already spoken in FromLinux and that precisely polishes those details that bother me so much Gnome fallback. One of them, to mention some, are the icons in the notification area, which by default are large and ugly, something that has been corrected by Ikey Doherty.
SolusOS, in its version 2, is already in the Alpha 5 and in a very short time the release of the version Stable. Viewing the images on the account G + from Ikey, I have noticed that you are doing a final job with the artwork of the distribution. Let us remember that we are talking about that it is based Debian Testing (Points in favor), and on top of this, a series of super updated packages that Debian by default it does not provide.
So if you can have a Classic Gnome in terms of appearance, using the technology of Gnome 3.4, well polished, about Debian Testing and with updated packages as I said, what more could you ask for? SolusOS It would become my favorite distribution, as long as when testing it, there is nothing that is unsatisfactory.
For now here are some images of how the Alpha 5:
