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Solus

Solus is a Linux distribution built from scratch. It uses a forked version of the PiSi package manager, maintained as "eopkg" within Solus, and its flagship edition uses the Budgie desktop environment.

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KaOS

KaOS is a desktop Linux distribution that features the latest version of the Noctalia desktop environment, the Calligra office suite, and other popular software applications that use the Qt toolkit. It was inspired by Arch Linux, but the developers build their own packages which are available from in-house repositories.

Technical Specs Comparison
SolusKaOS
IndependentBaseIndependent
eopkg, flatpakPackage Managerpacman / pkg
systemdInit Systemsystemd
Rolling ReleaseRelease ModelRolling Release
4.9Latest Version2026.02
BeginnerDifficultyIntermediate
April 18, 2026Release DateFebruary 15, 2026
x86_64
Architecture
x86_64
BudgieGNOMEKDE PlasmaXfceniriNoctalia
Desktops
BudgieGNOMEKDE PlasmaXfceniriNoctalia