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Elementary OS – Fast, open, privacy-respecting replacement for Windows and macOS

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Re: Elementary OS – Fast, open, privacy-respecting replacement for Windows and macOS

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Post by snazz »

LeoPanthera wrote: post #19
jniedrauer wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fedora is my daily driver, and I think it really strikes a good balance between stability, security, and bleeding edge. Having said that, I hesitate to recommend Fedora to newbies. Some things about it can be scary and unpredictable. SELinux is enabled by default, and gnome shows audit2allow notifications every time there is an AVC denial. Someone coming from windows will be scared by seeing dozens of errors the very…

> Someone coming from windows will be scared by seeing dozens of errors the very first time they boot into a clean OS. I'm not sure what you're describing here. I've never seen one error after a new install, let alone dozens. The SELinux errors must be pretty rare because I've never had any complaints about them.

Same here. I've never seen one on a system that has hundreds of additional packages installed and has survived a number of upgrades.

Re: Elementary OS – Fast, open, privacy-respecting replacement for Windows and macOS

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Post by jammygit »

kevingrahl wrote: post #40
saganus wrote: post #25

What kind of apps does Elementary OS support? Can I install .deb packages or other Linux-compatible ones? Otherwise it's going to be hard to adopt an OS if there are not enough of the apps I use, no?

I’ve been using elementary OS for the past two years or so; you can use everything that runs on Ubuntu which of course includes .deb packages.

Does it support snaps as easily as Ubuntu does?

Re: Elementary OS – Fast, open, privacy-respecting replacement for Windows and macOS

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Post by type0 »

y4mi wrote: post #5

I'll be honest.. I tried elementary os when they first released it but never got it's charm. It always felt like an inferior version of macOS... Which I don't like. I personally prefer to develop on a Linux install... But elementary OS is not what I'd use if Linux is an option

MacOS is an inferior version of BSD!

Re: Elementary OS – Fast, open, privacy-respecting replacement for Windows and macOS

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Post by jammygit »

nkkollaw wrote: post #27

elementary is not for me because it limits configuration a little bit too much to my taste, but it's a wonderful project. One of the cons of Linux--which is the OS I use exclusively--is that most apps are made by programmers, and programmers often don't care and don't have design skills. elementary OS looks absolutely stunning, and it's perfect if you stick to curated apps and you just want something that works. Most…

"Most importantly, they were able to finally find a way for devs to get paid, so that they can continue working and debugging their apps."

This is the most exciting part of elementary IMO: it is a model for free software to bring in some cash and fund full time development.

Re: Elementary OS – Fast, open, privacy-respecting replacement for Windows and macOS

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Post by BonesJustice »

kitsunesoba wrote: post #31
coleifer wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Its not too different from c#, and it's very popular for writing gtk applications.

Even so, it’s going to scare off a lot of potential contributors long before they investigate the language deeply simply by having a name they don’t recognize. It effectively limits the contributor pool to those who’ve previously written GTK apps, which is relatively tiny compared to the number of devs coming from more mainstream backgrounds.

I was looking through some of their sources, and that was the first encounter I’d had with Vala. If anything, it makes me more interested in potentially contributing.

Now, whether the tooling is up to snuff is another question. If it’s not, then the language choice could still end up being a turn-off, if not an immediate one.

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Post by timbit42 »

y4mi wrote: post #5

I'll be honest.. I tried elementary os when they first released it but never got it's charm. It always felt like an inferior version of macOS... Which I don't like. I personally prefer to develop on a Linux install... But elementary OS is not what I'd use if Linux is an option

elementary OS is Linux.

Re: Elementary OS – Fast, open, privacy-respecting replacement for Windows and macOS

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Post by timbit42 »

sneak wrote: post #57

To be a macOS replacement, an OS needs to work well on Apple hardware. Does Elementary OS now work well on Apple hardware? The last time I tried it, it did not.

With the T2 chip only macOS can run on Apple hardware now.

Re: Elementary OS – Fast, open, privacy-respecting replacement for Windows and macOS

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Post by thrownaway954 »

cordite wrote: post #39

I am currently on this os, it’s pleasant most of the time, but it crashes 75% of the time on unlocking the lock screen. It also starts having windows flicker for a few seconds at random after a few days of uptime. I use Nvidia GTX 1080, it seems to work well otherwise.

How can something that "crashes 75% of the time on unlocking the lock screen" be "pleasant most of the time" to use??? If Windows, OSX or Linux did that, would we even use them? Look I like to support open source projects, but junk is junk and if this thing crashes like you say so... it's junk.
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