Look buddy… I get it. The supreme leader wasn’t a supreme greeter… But damn did he make one hell of a cake.
The Solus Project hit a rough patch in the midst of Ikey’s absence, but the rebound was almost as strong as my pullout game and the project is hammering away once more. I want to take a moment to note that Ikey’s absence may well have been the bus factor we all hear about. The Patreon situation was unfortunate and the team has worked quickly to mitigate it while moving everything forward in a more self-sustaining and transparent way.
Long story short, I plan to shill Solus so hard it cries. I’m back, little bitches, and I’m swinging low.
I wonder how they are getting on recovering that Solus paypal account. There is potentially quite a bit of cash locked up in there that would, no doubt, be very useful to the project.
Solus is one of the few distros that make use of PGO (profile guided optimization) Essentially, they run the program, while monitoring the instruction paths the assembled program takes, and determine if the compiler can use different instructions to make the program more efficient.
You can see some benchmarks here, but we’ve had even better results more recently:
They also focus on providing a perfect experience. Basically, if a package doesn’t work 100%, they don’t include it.
As far as DE goes, they provide Budgie as the flagship DE, but also provide i3, Mate, Gnome and KDE.
Not this way. Gentoo provides a fair bit less optimization than Solus and you have to heat your house compiling every week or so. Gentoo provides fractions of a percent of optimization, Solus provides 5-30% optimization, depending on workload.
