When comparing Solus vs RemixOS, the Slant community recommends Solus for most people. In the question“What is the best laptop OS?” Solus is ranked 21st while RemixOS is ranked 60th. The most important reason people chose Solus is:
Which means you don't have to suffer from version to version updates that can break it.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Rolling release
Which means you don't have to suffer from version to version updates that can break it.
Pro Easy installation
The installation procedure for this distribution is quite simple. It's GUI based and all you have to do is to follow the instructions given by the installation window itself.
Pro Modern desktop environment
The default desktop environment used by Solus is called Budgie and is quite nice and minimalistic.
Pro Stable
The system itself is very stable. All packages in the repository seem to be carefully picked, well prepared and run stable.
Pro Responsive
System boots quickly and stays responsive. Does what operating system should do, and does it really well.
Pro Most stable Rolling Release Distro
Pro Exclusively for desktop systems
Pro Great package management
The software center makes it really easy to install the latest software through Snappy and Flatpak. Including third party software.
Pro Rock-solid Distro
Very stable and well curated.
Pro Lightning fast boot time
Pro Seamless packages
It may not have the most obscure packages, but the packages it does have is a good number of everything a Linux user needs. Gamers, developers, desktop users, etc. all have the necessary packages and then some. The packages themselves are integrated perfectly and are very well updated.
Pro Default experience is clean and easy
The default desktop experience on the Budgie version is very clean and streamlined. Although the Budgie DE isn't the most customisable, but it's customisable enough for me to recreate the desktop style of ElementaryOS with the dock and bar at the top.
Pro Friendly towards proprietary codecs, firmware and drivers
So you won't have to enable PPAs or extra repos for that.
Pro Well curated software
The software is well curated in the repos, you have access to flatpaks and snaps, so virtually, all the software you'll ever need is there for you.
Pro Friendly community
The only community who values the newcomers. Very helpful community.
Pro Built from scratch
Pro Fast
The simple fact that its a real operating system, and not an emulator, means that you can use it without emulator related slow downs.
Pro Google services
The latest version of the Remix OS downloaded for it's official website comes with the Google play store, etc. When you are booting up he latest version of the OS it's asks you whether to enable or disable Google services... You can choose whether to enable or disable according to your needs.
Pro Free
There's never as good a price as a grand total zero dollars, and that is exactly what this will cost you. That means that if it does not work, if your not happy with it, or if you just cant afford buying an operating system, you can still get RemixOS.
Pro Kernel
compatible kernel
Cons
Con Not much software
There is not much software available.
Con Lack of software in repositories
There is a lack of software in the repositories. This is the only OS where I have had to build some applications from source or install from the app's site within the first month os usage. Though this is most likely because the distro is still relatively new.
Con There is often a black screen after update
Con An upgrade breaks the system quite often
Con Forums are not very friendly
Con Systemd
Con No USB Image writer
Con The default desktop environment is not very customizable
Maybe because it's a relatively new project still in its infancy and this may be fixed in the future, but Budgie is not very customizable. You can only change the theme and wallpaper.
Con Slow development
Con Software a bit slower to launch than for other distributions
Con Still in beta
As of March 2016, RemixOS for computers is still in beta, meaning that some things might not work.
Con No Google Play services
Google play is the biggest go to for mainstream android apps, so it can be quite disagreeable not to have it out of the box.
Con Problems with Nvidia cards
Many people seem to have problems loading React OS with nvidia cards. This may be due to maxwell driver issues.
Con Dead
Killed off in 2017 by it's creators, it is no longer in development.