Elementary OS can be installed on top of Fedora. This way you can try it out and go back to vanilla Gnome if you so prefer. While still leveraging the Fedora ecosystem.
https://computingforgeeks.com/install-pantheon-desktop-envir...
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#42Elementary OS can be installed on top of Fedora. This way you can try it out and go back to vanilla Gnome if you so prefer. While still leveraging the Fedora ecosystem. https://computingforgeeks.com/install-pantheon-desktop-envir...
Thank you so much for this! I really like the look and feel of Elementary from trying it a couple of years ago, but wouldn't want to leave Fedora now to go back to it just for the feel.
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#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why do you hope so? Vala is a decent language which let's users build Gtk applications easily.
Because most people aren't going to learn yet another language for the privilege of being able to contribute to something.
Vala is probably the easiest way to work with Gtk+ anyway, so might as well be Vala if the stack is Gtk. I don't know Vala well, but wouldn't mind jumping in with it, scares me a lot less than Gtk in C.
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#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
Which parts are nicer? What makes them nicer?
Every single bit of the desktop is nicer than stock GNOME. Preferences, the terminal, the dock, window decorations, you name it. It’s just visually polished and _consistent_ to a degree I haven’t found in any other distro yet.
I agree. It's the tiniest things, like math operations in the search bar, autosaving in the text editor, terminal knowing that I want to copy something when I select the text and press Ctrl + C...
+ NO MENU BARS. I'm allergic to locating things in a drop down within a drop down within a drop down.
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#45Wondering how copyright infringement applies to Open Source Software. This OS looks a lot like MacOS, making it a free a clone.
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#46I thought this was the Android-on-desktop? What is that called?
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#47I hope the ui not built with vala
I'm not sure why you are getting downvoted, as this is a legitimate issue. If the authors want someone else but themselves to contribute to this MacOS clone, they should use a more common language.
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#48How useful is Elementary OS for people who are more familiar with technology and things like Ubuntu? Would I be able to install Nvidia drivers and CUDA, build my own ffmpeg binaries, etc? or is it more aimed at installing on machines for non-technical people?
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#49Serious question time. What benefit will I get from running something like Elementary over Ubuntu? Forgive my ignorance, but honestly the whole OS looks like it's just a fork of Ubuntu with a couple of swapped in applications, and a GTK3 theme on top of GNOME trying to make it look like a ten year old version of macOS. I hate to be so negative, but the "new greeter" they are showing looks like something from Windows…
Mostly aesthetics over features. So if you think GNOME is “dumbed down”, well...
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#50I've been using Elementary as my main OS for ~4 years now. No complaints. Everything runs smooth and nice.
However, since they build on the latest Ubuntu LTS release the Kernel is slighlty outdated and may not support the latest hardware. This can be fixed easily using a little tool called "ukuu" that will install a newer kernel for you https://github.com/teejee2008/ukuu