Version: 201902
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-07-15
Votes: 4
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I needed a Debian derived OS to run on a Lenovo Ideapad 320S. I discovered SolydXK on Distrowatch and got the latest version via torrent and copied it to a USB drive.
Live image started up really fast and the installer was straightforward and fast. All done in about 30 mins from copying to USB.
The OS is smooth and fresh , everything just works out of the box, no issues with firmware or codecs , all the stuff you need right there ready to use either in a LIVE environment or installed to your device of choice.
It is so refreshing to discover a "new" distro that does exactly what you want it to , first time , zero learning curve , just Linux as it should be .
Give SolydXK a try on whatever device you have , there is a great forum for support , and best of all it is based on Debian Stable so there is a rock "SOLYD" foundation to build on .......
ok , enough
TLDR: Great distro , works out of the box , ideal for beginners and old heads alike , good forum support and
a credit to Arjen Balfoort , the founder of SolydXk.
go on ...try it ...you know you want to .
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Version: 9
Rating: 8
Date: 2019-06-26
Votes: 2
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Stable distribution on a stable base, more than enough features,easy in use!
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Version: 201902
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-06-20
Votes: 16
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Elegant, stable distribution. Debian based apt makes it super simple to manage all packages, even if not originally part of the repositories.
I'm very happy using it.
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Version: 201902
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-05-14
Votes: 18
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Great distro, stable and feature rich. Installer includes options for modern file system like F2FS and NILFS2. Thank you devs.
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Version: 201902
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-04-05
Votes: 8
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If you want maximal compatibility with Debian with few added touches for ease of use for common desktop user and elegant, functional and fast desktop (even on older hardware) without distractions (except, the default background images), then SolydX variant with XFCE desktop is very good choice. If you were frustrated by the direction Ubuntu and Mint went, it would be perfect replacement either. And for me personally, the choice of preinstalled apps is just what I would choose myself.
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Version: 201902
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-04-02
Votes: 4
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For any Linux user sick of distroshopping, this is the cure. It's like resting on a tropical beach after a tiring journey. It's very, very good. (Sorry, English is not my native language)
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Version: 201902
Rating: 9
Date: 2019-03-20
Votes: 2
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I am using Solydx, I am satisfied!
Positive:
- Good selection of apps
- Easy to use
- Fast
- Stable
- Updating is smooth
- Installation is easy
Negative:
- Wallpapers are ugly. Fortunately they are easy to change.
- Firewall rules might need tweaking.
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Version: 201902
Rating: 9
Date: 2019-03-05
Votes: 1
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I think I have found my Perfect Distro, after all of these years. I always had at Least one PC running Ubuntu of some flavor, and over the past few years it was Ubuntu Mate, It had all the Apps I needed or wanted, easy to set up and use and it just worked. But there were a few settings or more modern items I wished for but nothing that was a deal breaker.
Now I stumbled onto/into SolydX EE and it has everything I need and want, plus it is nicely updated and colorful
but not gaudy. I use some Compiz features in my workflow and It has them plus the Emerald Themes. The panel can span both of my monitors, plus it was super easy to set up both monitors, plus I can now have different wallpapers on each monitor without a 3rd party App. I was able to set up Sharing between my PC's, the only thing I haven't figured out is why I can read files from my NAS but don't have permissions to write to it with SolydX EE. I never had that issue with any other Distro, though SolydX is a very securely set up Distro.
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Version: 201902
Rating: 3
Date: 2019-03-05
Votes: 0
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Very attractive screens, but:
Particularly difficult to install: inconsistent about swap requirements; refuses to install if swap provisions are not correct; installer has no provision for creating partitions.
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Version: 201902
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-03-04
Votes: 2
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This is a Linux gem. It seems to have defaulted to many of the preferences that I always seemed to have to set up manually in other distributions.
A simple example of that is the terminal emulator comes packaged with a bigger font and colors that I prefer.
Recognizes my wireless printer without my having to go through CUPS configuration myself.
Has "update-grub".
Etc. Etc.
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Version: 201807
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-02-11
Votes: 13
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Ever since Linux Mint made the mistake of dropping the KDE version, I have been looking for a replacement. I tried several Ubuntu based distros, but they were always too buggy! I have really been looking for a distro based on Debian Stable that has a KDE version, and SolydK fills the bill. All of my computers are refurbished Lenovo (an M58P desktop, two Thinkpad T-400s, and a T4200. No problems installing SolydK on any of them. I very much like that I have the arrows back in my scroll-bars in all programs, and the root functions back that were removed for a while from Dolphin. I didn't have to install much software, most of the programs that I use were included. I am waiting for an mSATA SSD for the T420, and then it will get SolydK installed too.
SolydK may not be perfect, but it is as close to it as I have found so far.
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Version: 201807
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-01-29
Votes: 2
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I have been a Linux user for close to 20 years. I have tested a lot of distros in that time. All are much better now, than just few years ago. But as of October 2019. I'm yet to find anything better than Solydk. In my opinion this is the best of the best.
Is it perfect? Of course not! Again in my opinion it is as close to that as I have ever tried. SolydK has most of the things I look for, like easy configuration and a good base to work from in Debian. But it’s the small little things that make it work for me, like easy access to root with a click of a mouse. Very clear and simple design features. Most of the programs that I would want are installed and ready to go. All this on a good Debian base. What more could you ask for? I highly recommend SolydXK
RB-ARTIST
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Version: 201807
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-01-13
Votes: 3
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Based on Debian stable with the lightweight xfce and tweaks, improvements, and offers you with all the codecs you need. I love it and offers Firefox ESR, which I love.
I havent had any problems with it, everything works.
Absolutely worth a try, you will not go back.
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Version: 201807
Rating: 8
Date: 2019-01-03
Votes: 1
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Je recherchais une debian xfce facile a installer après un an avec emmabuntus.
J'ai donc découvert Solydx xfce, l'installation s'est déroulée sans problèmes y compris la langue française.
Installée sur un vieux hp compag cq57, cela est fluide et ça fonctionne très bien.
Très bonne distribution pour des grand débutants comme moi !
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Version: 9
Rating: 10
Date: 2018-10-29
Votes: 3
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I came from Linux Mints LMDE desktop, as they decided to drop the support of XFCE. XFCE is the perfect compromise between resource use and comfort. I do not have to say much about SolydX, it just works - on my office desktop, on my laptop and on my girlfriend's laptop and on some of my friends machines. None of them complained. If you fancies the most actual software, you should look for distribution based on debian sid but I noticed that most of time the newest version is not necessary for me. I installed two programs from the backports and one from an external project to get a newer version than the one provided by debian stable.
I once had a problem with the connection to an MS-Exchange server but the solydxk community helped me to solve it. Thank you guys, the best distribution in my 18 years of Linux.
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Version: 201807
Rating: 9
Date: 2018-09-26
Votes: 10
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I was looking for a Debian stable based Distro with KDE Plasma with which I could do my office work properly. I found SolydK - and I am very impressed about the way it polishes Debian stable. It works out of the box the way I want it to. It has the software installed, I would have wanted to. It looks to me quit acceptable. Meanwhile I installed SolydX on an old Asus notebook. It works and looks great. Only on my one year old HP notebook it had problems with ACPI which is due to the older kernel in Debian 9, I guess.
All in all, when you are looking for Debian stable for desktop use - give SolydXK a chance. It might impress you as well.
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Version: 201807
Rating: 10
Date: 2018-09-18
Votes: 1
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Yesterday I installed on an old computer by Compaq Solus LXLE but as usual it was impossible to install any package of italian language.So I decided to try SolydX and what a surprise! Italia is basic installed and it need not any other package! My first impression is of stability and very easy to use also for a beginner. A Debian based distro I advice :)
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Version: 201807
Rating: 10
Date: 2018-09-14
Votes: 1
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I'm staying with SolydX for a while. I like Debian. I kind of like the icon theme. I like that I can have the wallpaper change automatically on a timer. I use the wallpaper file from LXLE which I liked but I couldn't live with seamonkey. It's really stable. Partitioning was tricky mostly since I run an SSD and hard drive. I can only run VLC from the command line. I know the repo works well because I used it to install banshee. Overall I'm content with it. I don't feel like I need to try another distro because I'm missing something which for me is saying something.
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Version: 201807
Rating: 10
Date: 2018-08-25
Votes: 2
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Really nice Debian-based distro. This is mainly a Debian Xfce/KDE with some useful stuff added. Installation is really easy, and the first boot welcome screen is a great help for Linux beginners to add software (torrent, multimedia, codecs...) you need in one click.
The SolydXK repo allows to switch easily from Firefox ESR to Firefox release if you want. SolydXK configuration system tools are efficient.
After spending a long time with Debian, I think I've found the distro that may satisfy advanced users AND beginners. The Debian quality with a more user-friendly experience.
Cons: Just a few SolydXK wallpapers. These orange colours are not to my taste. Missing some nature/landscape backgrounds to my mind. But this may be added easily.
Great work and long life to this project.
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Version: 201807
Rating: 10
Date: 2018-08-16
Votes: 2
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After a lot of testing a lot of distro's, I still keep coming back tot SolydX.
The best Debian-based distro there is.
Now its back om my laptop and installed Mate DE with ease...
SolydX its here to stay!
Love it!
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Version: 201807
Rating: 10
Date: 2018-08-13
Votes: 3
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Very solid and compatible with older computers. Works out of the box, especially with Realtec WIFI adapters!
A bit slow and complicated to install, but once its on board, works great!
The package manager could be made a bit simpler to use.
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Version: 201807
Rating: 8
Date: 2018-08-08
Votes: 7
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Solid.
Great for those wanting a ready out-of-the-box Debian Stable KDE spin.
I think the theming is terrible.
Friendly forums.
For the Xfce version (SolydX) -- I'd go with MX Linux instead.
~ Torin
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Version: 201807
Rating: 10
Date: 2018-08-04
Votes: 1
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Though SolydK has no real interest for me (due to its old Plasma 5.8.6 and its uncompleted french translation), SolydX is really astounding. Easy to install, a perfect (and probably one of the best) Debian-based Xfce distro with facilitating tools for adding software you need.
If SolydK may fit to desktop, SolydX is really the best distro I could use on my 6 y.o laptop.
Cons: The few wallpapers are not to my taste. Installation may be quite long because of system updates.
Very good job.
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Version: 201807
Rating: 4
Date: 2018-08-04
Votes: 3
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Unable to update to EE (says fdisk would break system), and unfortunately the kernel/mesa etc of the standard version are too low. Very stable, but problems with graphics tablet (no DKMS fix in the kernel) but Digimend developer was great.
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Version: 201807
Rating: 10
Date: 2018-07-20
Votes: 1
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Excelent OS. I use the Enthusiast’s Edition (x86) of solydx in my Atom N270 beacause is based in debian testing and I want a rolling system.
Pros.
* The installer is really good, and permit install the system in exotics deployment like RAID-0
* Samba is installed and configured by default with some good quirks
* SolydXK System Settings is helpfull and can install nvidia drivers.
Cons.
* The installer update the system, if you have a slow internet the installation took much time.
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Version: 9
Rating: 9
Date: 2018-07-20
Votes: 5
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Just love this Distro. It's easy to install, easy to use, has a great gui, and it uses Debian Repositories. It also has it's own Repository which is quiet extensive. I always liked Debian, but could never use it easily because of missing drivers. SolydXK solved all that, by including the drivers that I needed right out of the box. I've tried dozens of distro's, and SolydXK is definately my favorite. It's quick, polished, and plays really well with both new and old hardware. The developers did an outstanding job on this distro, and you can see it everywhere in the attention to detail they used. I can see SolydXK climbing the charts on Distrowatch, once user's start spreading the word. I know I will be telling everyone I know about it. This distro sells itself, once you used it.
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Version: 9
Rating: 10
Date: 2018-07-18
Votes: 1
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I’m running two SolydXK systems and find both systems stable, functional and very capable of doing all I need to do with a computer.
SolydX 9 is running on an older HP laptop. Debian stable as a base, xfce for the desktop interface, and a very functional default application selection. I’ve only needed to change a few of the default settings and add a couple of additional applications. The community is small but very helpful. SolydX has been my stable workhorse operating system since I left Windows 7 back in the year 14.
I also enjoy SolydK EE on a secondary desktop system. This is the community supported enthusiasts edition based on Debian testing and a great way to run KDE Plasma. A lot of regular updates but very few minor problems over several months of using it. Not for beginners or those looking for greater stability.
SoldXK 9 is enthusiastically recommended for beginners and experienced Linux users.
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Version: 201807
Rating: 10
Date: 2018-07-11
Votes: 7
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Great os . very nice. I found a little problem a apt-get error was cause by snort click on. I uninstall the problem. It was given a lock to not get in software package manager.I had to go into the terminal to weed out . Less than 5 minutes. Everything is working right! Impressive. Thank you for removing Google, facebook, other spys. No microsoft trash.
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Version: 201807
Rating: 9
Date: 2018-07-07
Votes: 3
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Solid, easy to use Debian semi-rolling release distro. I really am just tired of having to do major version upgrades with Mint and even MX (another fine distro).
The only downsides: a bit slow in comparison, and systemd.
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Version: 201807
Rating: 10
Date: 2018-07-07
Votes: 1
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Having used other distros, finally found in SolydK the stable and powerful environment I need.
Debian is a warranty, but Solydk puts it at maximum.
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Version: 201807
Rating: 5
Date: 2018-07-04
Votes: 2
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Just another me too Debian fork. Heavy on resources, to many questions to answer during setup and performs worse as a VM.
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Version: 9
Rating: 8
Date: 2018-07-02
Votes: 2
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Looks very nice, good graphic design, feels solid (sorry), rustic to the eyes. I'am rather pleased with it and will keep it installed on my desktop (and RaspberryPi).
Albeit it's not the only one.
Website itself could be better, but the SolidX is great!
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Version: 201801
Rating: 10
Date: 2018-06-04
Votes: 5
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Like many reviewers here I have spent a long time (and many DVD-Rs in the early days) distro-hopping to try and get one for a specific purpose. I use Arch for my dev box and MX Linux on my main device, but I also have an ultra-portable that I use for my business needs, so the primary demand is reliability as well as a sensible workflow environment. If my Arch install breaks then it's a minor annoyance, if my business box breaks then it is potentially a catastrophe. Therefore I have been using SolydX for nearly two years, and it really is as bulletproof as others say, no updates or upgrades to date have managed to corrupt it.
GNU/Linux is fun to mess with, but it also has a serious side, if Honda made a distro then it would be SolydX(K).
My only 10/10 distro to date.
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Version: 201801
Rating: 10
Date: 2018-05-25
Votes: 4
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ROCK SOLID !!!
Fast and smooth even when installed on and run from an USB - Amazing !!!
I have tried em all but this is so far the NR. 1
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Version: 9
Rating: 10
Date: 2018-05-08
Votes: 8
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After having tried dozens of distros I keep coming back to SolydX and SolydK. Just tried Ubuntu Mate 17.04 for 4 or 5 months and although very polished it was very buggy. After an update broke it to the point of being unrecoverable, I had enough of it and went to SolydK 9 plasma. Much superior to Ubuntu Mate - it ran significantly lighter and was more robust with a very pleasant polished experience. Then I decided to put SolydX 9 on another partition for a dual boot - what a delightful experience! This runs even lighter than SolydK 9 and is absolutely rock solid. Also I absolutely love the orange theming and Evolver icon set - very nice. SolydX 9 has been a fantastic experience - everything seems to work fine - there have been no crashes at all and it works perfectly. One tip - if you want to use dual monitors you need to download Arandr since there is a bug in XFCE - yes, 1 bug - then it should work fine. This has to be one of the very best implementations of XFCE, and I would hope that many more will try this wonderful distro(or SolydK 9 as well). There are other distros much more popular that get a lot more press, but that doesn't necessarily mean that they are the best.
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Version: 201801
Rating: 10
Date: 2018-04-08
Votes: 4
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Perfect distro for my needs. What I want:
-Stability
-KDE Plasma
-Somewhat nice looking OOTB
-Codecs for everything installed
SolydK does that perfectly. If you like the KDE Plasma desktop and prefer stability over newer packages then this is for you.
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Version: 201801
Rating: 10
Date: 2018-03-31
Votes: 6
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A great Distribution. Maybe the best Debian based.
When you say "not as simple as Mint.", then its only true when you want a full disc encryption with lvm. The installer does not build this itself. You create it and can mount it as target.
All other is working out of the box.
The name SolydX / SolydK is program. X is for XFCE, K is for KDE. The official releases are Debian stable, the Debian testing is supported by the community. Also 32bit for older hardware available.
http://downloads.solydxk.com/
(in directory /ce = community edition)
Many thanks to the team.
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Version: 201801
Rating: 10
Date: 2018-03-08
Votes: 3
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It's not as simple as Mint for beginners, but a great Distro for experienced users. It's rock solid and has a friendly and helpful forum.
It's based on Debian stable, but you can switch to the community version and and testing if you want.
It's fast on my SSD with full disc encryption, btrfs and discard. But you should have skills for cryptsetup. Nothing strange for an experienced user, but maybe for a beginner with default installer.
I have some VM's and 16 GB and all is fast.
Sound over HDMI with Radeon works out of the box. HP-Printer and Canon-Printer over LAN works out of the Box.
I use Numix Theme over "deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/numix/ppa/ubuntu bionic main", AppArmor. Boxcrypter via Java, IntelliJ IDEA, Kotlin installed with SDK, Ultraedit, Telegram Messenger, Signal Messenger, Master PDF Editor, AnyDesk for Remote Support, calibre etc. All is working fine and stable.
I love this distribution. I tried some others, but always came back to SolydX.
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Version: 201801
Rating: 10
Date: 2018-02-26
Votes: 1
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During the past three years I tested (and used to a certain extent) different OS (all Debian based) in my main desktop and two laptops.
But every test finishes coming back to SolydK (the KDE spin). SolydK gives convenience between easy of use, power and, overall, stability. Yes, SolydxK is 'rock solid'.
On an old Acer One ( 10" netbook) SolydX (the Xfce version) runs like a champ.
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Version: 201801
Rating: 8
Date: 2018-02-04
Votes: 0
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Pro's
Fast, easy to use, all the right software installed.
Con's
Hardly beginner friendly if you have to setup the partitions, it could use a install using entire disk.
It is not a distro I would recommend to users switching from windows.
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Version: 201801
Rating: 6
Date: 2018-01-24
Votes: 0
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SLOW!! I have a quad core Intel 6th gen, 8 gb mem and an SSD. Too slow for me.
Plus, this OS does NOT have the up to date HP printer drivers. How ridiculous!!
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Version: 201701
Rating: 10
Date: 2018-01-17
Votes: 11
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I have always been in a state of mind where I can't decide if SolydX or MX is the very best distro. I have a longer relationship with Mx (Mepis), but when the chips fall, I have to hand it to SolydX for the overall best out of the box distro I can recall using.
Now I have a few legacy pieces of hardware - 20 year old HP deskjet connected with a parallel to usb adaptor, a 25 year old ps2 Gateway keyboard connected with a usb adaptor, usb floppy drive - all work flawlessly under SolydX at first boot.
For me SolydX just works. It is the kind of distro that I like - it does it's job without getting in the way of you doing your job. And being XFCE, the tools are readily at hand to make the distro your distro, painlessly.
The only con that I can come up with is one that applies to most distros - I would like a version without all the included software. Offer me a base running X with internet connectivity, and let me add the apps that I have found work best for me. (Of course, most of those apps I have 'discovered' by seeing the apps that distros have included in their live versions.)
Oh yeah, the fact that they still 'support' 32 bit through the community editions is a big thumbs up in my book.
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Version: 9
Rating: 6
Date: 2018-01-06
Votes: 9
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+ easy installation
+ no noticeable bugs
- installation takes a very long time because updates are downloaded
- system feels a bit slower compared to other xfce distros I have tried
- selection of installed software is not impressive
- looks are not to my personal taste
- updates notification is annoying
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Version: 201701
Rating: 8
Date: 2017-12-13
Votes: 1
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Easy ti install
Fast
Package Manager need to be more user friendly
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Version: 9
Rating: 10
Date: 2017-12-01
Votes: 3
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SolydX is probably the best Debian+XFCE-based distro. Period.
After trying a dozen or so lightweight distributions (based mainly on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS) to power my 5-year-old laptop I found this to be the first one to do the job and I have *nothing* to complain about.
Everything just works out-of-the-box, the pre-installed software selection is sane, the desktop-environment is super-light yet fully functional for my purposes.
Strongly recommended!!!
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Version: 9
Rating: 10
Date: 2017-11-25
Votes: 0
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Thats the best Deb based distro !
Its the only one that makes bumblebee + nvidia works without tearing and without any complication with just one click!
everything works out of the box, i also dont have any bluetooth problem as i seem to have on ubuntu and others!
This is an masterpiece! trust me! this is wonderful! love ya
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Version: 9
Rating: 9
Date: 2017-11-25
Votes: 1
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Very good Debian base solid rolling, with very good custom theme. Easy Debian experience, install and working, all that i needed.
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Version: 9
Rating: 10
Date: 2017-11-19
Votes: 2
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After Mint announced to drop KDE I started distrohopping trying KDE Neon (Plasma unstable), KaOS and Manjaro KDE (both stable but lack some essential software for me like Teamviewer for example)
Next I tried SolydK and I'm pretty sure this is my KDE distro for the coming years!
Installation went fine and easy, also with keeping my extra ext4 data partition. It's a fast, stable and non bloated KDE distro. Only thing I did not like is the default Solyd theme (bit ugly, not refined) so I switched to Breeze. My first generation Core i5 laptop is just used as a daily workhorse machine so I need absolute stability which is guaranteed by this Dutch distro based on Debian stable.
It includes also some nice things known from Mint like the Synaptic package manager which is far superior to managers like Pacman in my honest opinion.
Support is given by an active forum, fast response also from the SolidXK team itself!
This distro deserves a higher ranking! Kudo's to the developers.
BTW, I tried the Xfce version too just to get an idea. Nicest looking Xfce distro I have ever seen! Based on the same Debian stable. However, as a KDE fan Xfce has not enough options for me and it uses more memory!
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Version: 9
Rating: 3
Date: 2017-08-15
Votes: 0
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Started SolydX 9 from disc. All went well to live Desktop. Everything as I anticipated. I tried a few things live and everything worked fine, just what I wanted. I started Install, it takes longer than most, probably due to Upgrade, but no trouble. Re-start and what a disappointment. Nothing like the 'Live' desktop. Panel and Application list misplaced and flakey, nothing like the excellent Live layout which I would have been happy with. So back to Sparkey, at least they fulfil their promise.
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Version: 9
Rating: 6
Date: 2017-08-13
Votes: 4
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SolydX was my everyday workhorse for several years. Updating to SolydX 9 (Debian Stretch based) was disappointing. Many of the applications showed an ugly interface (extreme example: galculator where the buttons disappeared, only plain text on a grey background, that is no interface any more), the same machine, which worked seamlessly before began to lag every some minutes and, most bothering, the system time turned to be inaccurate. Some of the distribution's own tools have been deleted and also the Raspberry Pi edition. I' am not sure, if the interface problems really are a SolydX issue, maybe GNOME/GTK should be adressed instead. But in general I think one of the Youtube reviewers of SolydXK is right: For some reasons this distribution seems to decline. It deserves a rating of 6, because, though ugly and strange, but eventually I got my programming environment running on it. Debian netinstall wasn't able to do that due to some apt respectively ?file system problems.
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Version: 9
Rating: 10
Date: 2017-07-31
Votes: 2
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With SolydK 9 I can enjoy two steps forward: the new version of Debian (Stretch) and the newer Desktop Environment Plasma 5, faster and lighter. Also, very easy to incorporate your preferred applications, no need for a bloated 'All inside'.
For me, it is the best incarnation of Stretch + KDE up to now. Kudos to the developers.
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Version: 9
Rating: 9
Date: 2017-07-21
Votes: 1
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Not everything works correctly in both environments .
The previous release was just not killing ...
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Version: 9
Rating: 1
Date: 2017-07-20
Votes: 0
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Very interested but disappointed. It can't be installed in my Acer Aspire E15 E5-553G-T03K, AMD A10-9600P, AMD Radeon R8 M445DX.
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Version: 9
Rating: 10
Date: 2017-07-20
Votes: 3
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I've been looking for a Debian based KDE OS for some time. Have used Netrunner (not bad). Neon (very good). Then I tried SolydK. I've tried hard but cannot fault it. It's fast, stable, themed nicely, & has a good set of Apps out of the box. Also pleased to see that it's shed some of the weight of other conventional KDE OSs.
So far this is a keeper. Keep up the good work.
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Version: 201701
Rating: 10
Date: 2017-07-19
Votes: 0
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Pros:
It's stable, fast and it doesn't require large amount of ram.
It runs on my on my old pentium 4 smoothly.
The interface is user friendly, both windows and linux users will find it easy to use.
I can do things that i couldn't do in windows , games run fast even with a browser open, in windows i had to close everything to make quake 3 playable, now i can set the quality to the highest settings and it's still fast!
Comes with everything you need to get started working (require zero extra downloads).
Very Customizable.
Feels like home.
Cons:
it doesn't have bsod.
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I don't see my self moving from SolydXK in the near future.
I use SolydX8, Downloading 9.
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Version: 201701
Rating: 10
Date: 2017-07-18
Votes: 5
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I suspect that distro-hoppers would find SolydXK boring. Dull. Out of date. That's fine. In three years experience I've gone through several Debian distros, beginning with Mepis, then Antix, Mint Debian edition, Crunch Bang (loved it, until the developer abandoned it), and Manjaro. I've had several installs destroyed by update flaws and grub errors. My machines are old: a Dell Inspiron 5000 (my first laptop, 23 years ago, that still runs SolydX 'Jessie'; a set of Thinkpads: T-60, T400, X130e, running SolydX 'Jessie' and the T-400 just updated to SolydX 9 64-bit. And a desktop machine, Compaq S4000T running SolydX 'Jessie'. Old, obsolete, solid machines that don't show their age running Linux.
One laptop, the T-400, has dual-boot with Windows 7. Windows has been wiped from all the others.
The SolydXK team is dedicated to stable, quality work. It shows in their releases. I trust them. As the old Apple Macintosh slogan said, "It just works!" That's the boring part, I suppose. The updates go smoothly, the distro runs and runs, and I can always count on getting solid work done every time I boot one of the machines.
I run the latest stable version of WINE straight from the WineHQ repo; same for the latest builds of LibreOffice (5.3.4 at the moment); and my browser of choice, Palemoon, the latest stable release direct from their website. I simply don't have package breaks or conflicts with SolydX, despite this abuse. Backports also work well; I've not had a problem. So, if you want a boring, dull, and slightly backwards Stable distro... dip into the hidden world SolydXK. And let it run 24/7 for 180 days, like my desktop machine. No problem.
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Version: 9
Rating: 9
Date: 2017-07-17
Votes: 0
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After installation the KDE-version all was pretty good...ok, but one thing was wrong:
The akonadi-server does'nt work and so kmail also was not working.
Solved:
changing /home/.config/akonad/akonadiserverrc 'StartServer=false' to 'true'
and then was it working after a reboot.
Good for SSDs lifetime: The mount option 'noatime' is standard preconfigured.
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Version: 201606
Rating: 9
Date: 2017-07-05
Votes: 4
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I have been running SolydK on one of my machines for three years in different versions. Until the hard drive consumed itself last week it was running nearly as fast as my laptop (Fedora 25, i5 with 8GB ram) while on a desktop running C2D on 4gb ram. Admittedly, both were on SSD's. Since I will be rebuilding this box I will load SolydK again. The look and feel are great and it seems to run a lot lighter than Fedora, but I put a lot of stress on my Fedy box. Absolutely zero driver issues across multiple printers and my NVidia graphics card. Lucky I guess.
Only issue I have, and it's been mentioned before, is changing volume with the mouse wheel. Solved it using a higher end Logitech mouse but didn't configure out of the box that way. Just a thought.
Solid and stable. Just the way I like them.
Thank you.
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Version: 9-beta
Rating: 9
Date: 2017-06-27
Votes: 3
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This could potentially be the best kept secret of KDE distros. Just test drove the Beta and I am so impressed that I am contemplating switching completely. I also need to mention that the themeing and font rendering is absolutely superb.
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Version: 9-201703
Rating: 10
Date: 2017-06-04
Votes: 6
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SolydK is probably the best KDE distro out there at the present. It is one of the few, if not the only one, where "korganizer" works and it works well on top of that. It has a wonderful and very comprehensive repository with 70 000 entries to choose from. I didn't encounter any error messages, no dependency clashes or any other heart-stopping advices. It is Debian based. I found it it to be a little slow, but that's a very small price to pay for the stability and functionality you get in return.
Simply wonderful !! Many thanks to the developers for a job well done. Youse deserve a medal :))
5 out of 5 !!
10 out of 10
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Version: 201701
Rating: 9
Date: 2017-05-31
Votes: 0
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If, (for whatever reason) my mouse didn't adjust the volume, (on multiple installations on different systems) that would be great. Otherwise, it's a great distro.
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Version: 9-201703
Rating: 10
Date: 2017-05-20
Votes: 3
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Been running SolydX on Dell Inspiron 1500 for two years. Rock solid, no fuss, no gotchas. Have wine (PlayonLinux) to run some windows gear, and play around with various distros with VirtualBox. Nothing has tempted me to switch. (Debian and I think alike.)
Original hardware had Broadcom wireless card which I couldn't make drivers work for, so I swapped in an Intel card ($A18!) and was online straight away.
Maybe Solydx is passed over for other distros with pretty makeup, but this is my work machine (code, words and images) and with SolydX is totally reliable and a pleasure to use.
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Version: 201701
Rating: 10
Date: 2017-05-06
Votes: 4
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The Debian Stable for everybody. Convenient additions and easy to install and update.
Furthermore, in two flavours: Xfce (light but useful DE) and KDE (stable branch too, 4.14).
And, if you are brave enough, there are the 'Enthusiasts Editions' (SID based) and even a Raspberry PI version.
It is a shame that this excellent distro remains hidden under the first 100 'Premium' at Distrowatch. Have not tried it yet?
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Version: 9-201703
Rating: 10
Date: 2017-05-03
Votes: 2
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just migrated from my own spin of debian stable
added respin
got rid of that stupid uuid in grub and put in qt4-fsarchiver
love the extra software
device manager especially
love how well everything works
love it being rolling because i am so tired of dist-upgrade issues
looked at them all and this is best for me
this respun very easily
bright and colourful not dark and dead like many distros
Love the vision of the development team
thank you
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Version: 201701
Rating: 10
Date: 2017-04-17
Votes: 0
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I have probably stayed with this distro longer than any other. I put the version at 201701, but started with 201411. It has just been a pleasure to use, as it is stable, and basically stays out of the way of the software that I run - and the software runs without any OS issues. Haven't had hardware issues with either computer using it (1 old 1 new), and was shocked when OTB it had no issues printing to an OLD HP deskjet connected via a parallel 2 usb cable.
SolydX is now the distro that the others that I still look at have to beat. The grass may be greener on the other side, but so far I haven't had the urge to jump the fence.
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Version: 201606
Rating: 9
Date: 2017-03-22
Votes: 2
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What I like most about SolydX is that out of all the Debian based distros I have tried, including many in the Ubuntu family, SolydX has required the least amount of effort to customize it the way I like. I also like how it is not bogged down with unnecessary software. The rolling release is very nice too as I no longer have to bother with redoing my whole system every 6 to 9 months. I can keep upgrading and not have to reset everything.
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Version: 9-201703
Rating: 8
Date: 2017-03-21
Votes: 0
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Although SolydXK is a very solid Linux distro that's been around now for about 4 years, I only discovered it a few days ago and it is now my destop OS. I'm writing this from inside SolydX, the xfce version.
I was bored of my dependence on Ubuntu, even inside Linux Mint, so I decided to look around for versions of LMDE, or Linux Mint Debian. This is Mint built directly on Debian, leaving Ubuntu out of the picture all together. Such a distro exists as described, but as my preferred DE is xfce, I discovered that the LMDE xfce distro had forked over to SolydX.
It's got a good feel to it. I like it. I'm using it. I'm inside it.
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Version: 201701
Rating: 10
Date: 2017-03-10
Votes: 0
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A very good and rock solid distribution. I've installed Solydx a week ago
and I'm very impressed. I used MX-16 and Point linux before, which are
also great, but I don't miss them now. I also really recommend Solydx.
It's great :-)
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Version: 201701
Rating: 9
Date: 2017-02-27
Votes: 2
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A very good and rock solid distribution. I've installed Solydx on my Elitebook Folio 9480m two weeks ago and I'm very impressed. I used Peppermint OS before, which is also great, but I don't miss it now. I really recommend Solydx :-)
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Version: 201701
Rating: 8
Date: 2017-02-21
Votes: 0
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As the name says, this is a solid distro alright.
The update manager while great, does seem sluggish.
The distro is very user-friendly and the driver manager is a vital feature.
~ R
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Version: 201411
Rating: 10
Date: 2017-02-20
Votes: 0
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I use it for years now and it is great!!
No frills. No problems here.
So tranquilising for nerves and hyper stable. I still love it.
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Version: 201606
Rating: 10
Date: 2017-02-20
Votes: 0
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Great distro, friendly community.
Reliable KDE
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Version: 201701
Rating: 10
Date: 2017-02-17
Votes: 1
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With no previous knowledge of linux I instaled it with ease.
Like for stability, security, low hardware req and best of all it supports drivers for all my office stuff.
Easier setup of drivers then on win7! Great work!! Gonna recommend!
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Version: 201701
Rating: 9
Date: 2017-02-08
Votes: 0
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Highly impressed by SolydX
Very stable, easy to install.
Good mix of preinstalled software. Nice graphics.
Good job from our Dutch neighbors.
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Version: 201606
Rating: 9
Date: 2017-02-07
Votes: 0
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Great distro, rock solid, friendly community.
The default theme is poor, but acceptable.
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Version: 201701
Rating: 10
Date: 2017-02-03
Votes: 0
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everybody looking for a stable debian should take a look at this distribution
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Version: 201701
Rating: 10
Date: 2017-01-30
Votes: 1
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Pro: I use SolydK since 3 years, its really "Rock solid"! And the community is excellent!
Con: None
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Version: 201701
Rating: 10
Date: 2017-01-29
Votes: 1
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It is the perfect Distro, based on a rock solyd Debian and added to it a great user interface. It just works
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Version: 201701
Rating: 10
Date: 2017-01-27
Votes: 1
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What a nice surprise! Stable and fast!
Great work!
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Version: 201606
Rating: 10
Date: 2017-01-26
Votes: 1
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my ONLY quibble is that its default look is a little bland. Everything else...JUST WORKS.
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Version: 201701
Rating: 10
Date: 2017-01-26
Votes: 1
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Rock solid!
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Version: 201701
Rating: 10
Date: 2017-01-25
Votes: 1
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fast and debian 8
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Version: 201606
Rating: 10
Date: 2017-01-24
Votes: 1
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Pro: It is rock and rock solyd (based on Debian), it is snappy, looks good, it's the perfect distro.
Con: ???
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Version: 201606
Rating: 10
Date: 2017-01-24
Votes: 3
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Excellent stability, great community!
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Version: 201606
Rating: 10
Date: 2017-01-21
Votes: 1
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Reliable and fast.
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Version: 201606
Rating: 10
Date: 2017-01-20
Votes: 4
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I've used many distros this one SolydK is a really good rolling release it lacks a few printer and or scanner drivers apart from that very customizable , user friendly , and its a secure rolling release , use four virtual desktops ,one for search and launch the other three for difference e.g. one music player ,2 files and tags sorting ,3 gimp and shotwell and gwenview , the biggest drawcard is no more reinstalling its a rolling release
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