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Elementary OS 5.1 Hera

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Re: Elementary OS 5.1 Hera

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Post by ac29 »

ilovecaching wrote: post #7

I think Elementary should have focused on just shipping Pantheon as their end product. GNOME has had issues not only in the performance department, but it's also a very different type of minimalism for a DE that's supposed to be the mainstream pick for normal users. Elementary has adopted a far more conventional DE that feels as simple as GNOME, but far more usable. But I'm never going to use Elementary over Ubuntu o…

I'm never going to use Elementary either but I dont think its really targeted towards current Linux users, especially experienced ones. Its targeted towards Windows/macOS users.

Re: Elementary OS 5.1 Hera

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Post by _bxg1 »

Every workstation in my office runs Elementary. Around half of our employees came to the company with little or no prior technical experience, and it's worked out pretty well.

Re: Elementary OS 5.1 Hera

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Post by girvo »

jstewartmobile wrote: post #13

These "blah-OS" posts are so disappointing. You click--hoping for some new take on what an operating system should be--only to discover yet another half-assed linux distro.

Now, it may have been a while since I looked at Elementary OS, but "half assed" is definitely not a criticism of it as far as I'm concerned.

Re: Elementary OS 5.1 Hera

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Post by benbenolson »

jstewartmobile wrote: post #13

These "blah-OS" posts are so disappointing. You click--hoping for some new take on what an operating system should be--only to discover yet another half-assed linux distro.

This is quite a long-running project, and has tens of thousands of man-hours invested in it. Yet you, taking several seconds to post an Internet comment, declare it a "half-assed Linux distro," without even having properly read the website.

The Elementary OS project develops many of their own applications, have multiple custom themes, does relentless work ensuring available packages are stable and usable for each release, and they have their own DE. Also, many of the applications that weren't specifically made by the project were inspired by the project to be further developed-- thus boosting their userbase and volunteer developers.

Now, think what you will about the project, but this isn't a valid criticism.

Re: Elementary OS 5.1 Hera

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Post by whalesalad »

ilovecaching wrote: post #7

I think Elementary should have focused on just shipping Pantheon as their end product. GNOME has had issues not only in the performance department, but it's also a very different type of minimalism for a DE that's supposed to be the mainstream pick for normal users. Elementary has adopted a far more conventional DE that feels as simple as GNOME, but far more usable. But I'm never going to use Elementary over Ubuntu o…

You’re not wrong. It’s clear that their passion lies in the user experience and specifically look and feel.

Re: Elementary OS 5.1 Hera

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Post by scythe »

Unfortunately Elementary has so far struggled with the 1920x1080 screen on my Huawei Matebook D (bought a few months before the scandal). I haven't installed Hera yet, but hopefully the new text size option works as well as I'd like it to.

Otherwise my experience with Elementary has been... not so bad. The speakers are too quiet for some reason, my university's Wifi won't accept my credentials (every other network is fine) and occasionally Firefox crashes the world, but that's all, so far.

Wish list: a stable, possibly read-only[-only], update of ext2fsd, and a proper Paintbrush clone. Also, .txt files should not automatically open in Code, which would probably scare my mom.

Re: Elementary OS 5.1 Hera

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Post by aspaceman »

ilovecaching wrote: post #7

I think Elementary should have focused on just shipping Pantheon as their end product. GNOME has had issues not only in the performance department, but it's also a very different type of minimalism for a DE that's supposed to be the mainstream pick for normal users. Elementary has adopted a far more conventional DE that feels as simple as GNOME, but far more usable. But I'm never going to use Elementary over Ubuntu o…

As far as I'm aware, you can set up Pantheon yourself on Debian or Fedora (or Arch):

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pantheon https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pantheon-desktop-git/

The above is on arch, but the PKGBUILD should have generic enough build and packaging info, and I imagine there is a PPA equivalent.

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