Solus: I have not used Solus since the infrastructure issues they had in early 2023, so my information on it is extremely outdated. However, last I used it, their store did not support Flatpak, and there was a weird bug where steam caused the entire system to get destroyed. If you've been following Linux news, you'll know a similar thing happened with Pop OS, but the difference here is that whereas Pop OS's software store stopped you from doing that, Solus' store didn't. They also have limited packages, but they also have a request page where you can request packages. However, the news from early 2023 said they were planning on moving to a new immutable base with Solus Linux 5, and I'm honestly extremely intrigued to see how they do things with that. (This information is around a year old at this point, so take it with a grain of salt)
Vanilla OS: Vanilla's going through a bit of a transitionary period, and they themselves discourage installing it at this point.
Fedora Silverblue: If we're talking about the vanilla Silverblue, I don't like it. The Fedora licensing issues are back, but this time they're immutable and changing them is a hassle. However, if we're talking about the Universal Blue project...
Universal Blue: Universal Blue is what changed me from a silverblue hater to a lover. They provide their own version of Silverblue which removes all the licensing issues and include a lot of tweaks, most of which I don't need because my hardware isn't that great, but for someone who does it could be deal breaker (I don't really know). They also provide Bluefin and Aurora (I'm running Bluefin currently), but I don't really know much about them at this point. I also like the idea of forking my own image, but I'm assuming your friends and family definitely wouldn't.
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