I had talked about my wonderful experiences with openSUSE Tumbleweed...Which to be fair, it's amazing on my desktop. The one thing is that you must enroll keys in MOK (Machine Owner Key) every time you do a major update that alters the Linux kernel or NVIDIA Drivers. As this is a security feature designed to protect users against unsigned customized kernels or drivers. I had experienced a great borking event (due to body being disagreeable to the daily process of being alive). Having gone through that ordeal on my desktop, which ultimately required me to reinstall openSUSE Tumbleweed...
I was not thrilled about the idea of doing that on my Laptop. So after a lot of thinking about my options from mild like Solus, wild FreeBSD, and interesting concept Shani OS. I decided that Solus was the best bet because it had a package manager that I hadn't worked with before. Solus supports flatpaks out of the box, sane defaults, and a fairly robust recovery system that gets to back into a working OS if an update failed.
Installing the thing was really easy, took less than 9 minutes to install and boot into. You can also use Secure Boot with this distro, all you need to do is register the MOK on your device following easy to act upon instructions. I do advise to not use the drive encryption, as it was bugged AF, it wouldn't recognize my encryption password no matter how hard I tried. It took reinstalling Solus before being able to boot into it proper, still it wasn't that hard to get a working system in under 9 minutes.
I do recommend using the package manager eopkg to install updates upon logging into your user account. As Discover (KDE's graphical package manager) is slow. While eopkg is blazingly fast and surfaces useful information that you can act upon if you experience a problem. Surprisingly, zypper is slower than eopkg, yet both are powerful package managers.
After the initial system updates which are on a weekly schedule btw (a godsend from the daily deluge of openSUSE Tumbleweed). It didn't take me a long time to install and configure my software. I love the speed and efficiency of Solus. Can't wait to use it more often; particularly when I go to the coffee shop for writing or continuing to learn the basics of programming and Python.
Yeah, given Solus is a community driven project...I expect things will always get better over time! So this is pleasant news to me that drive encryption is going to be resolved. I think Solus overall is dialed in to be a great user experience otherwise, I love how Linux is made accessible with Solus.