Elementary OS 5.1 Hera • Hacker News Board

Re: Elementary OS 5.1 Hera

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Post by majewsky » Fri, Dec 06, 2019, 9:59 AM UTC

pabs3 wrote: post #6

Does anyone know if any other distros are packaging any parts of elementary OS?

Arch Linux appears to have some Pantheon applications in its repos, and the rest of the desktop is in the AUR: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pantheon

Re: Elementary OS 5.1 Hera

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Post by qxnqd » Fri, Dec 06, 2019, 10:06 AM UTC

jonny383 wrote: post #23

Serious 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…

You should see the KDE greeter, then. It looks like a bad joke.

Re: Elementary OS 5.1 Hera

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Post by joshklein » Fri, Dec 06, 2019, 10:13 AM UTC

Is global menu possible on Elementary yet? Searches only turn up old links for the now-dead unity style, but nothing based on libdbusmenu.

Still seems to me that Plasma with libdbusmenu-qt5 is the closest interface paradigm to MacOS for people trying to swap (not that there aren’t other problems), but glib and gtk versions exist so someone out there must be working on it?

Re: Elementary OS 5.1 Hera

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Post by kuon » Fri, Dec 06, 2019, 10:16 AM UTC

While I use i3 on archlinux, I think elementary OS looks great and is a great alternative for less tech savvy users. I am very grateful to the elementary OS community for it existence. One other alternative could be Cinnamon.

Re: Elementary OS 5.1 Hera

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Post by eisa01 » Fri, Dec 06, 2019, 10:21 AM UTC

Does Elementary OS support importing iTunes and macOS Photos libraries?

Re: Elementary OS 5.1 Hera

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Post by batterystd » Fri, Dec 06, 2019, 10:21 AM UTC

saagarjha wrote: post #55

batterystd wrote: post #46

I thought this was the Android-on-desktop? What is that called?

Perhaps you're thinking of (the now discontinued, and unrelated) Remix OS?

Sad to hear about the discontinued part

Re: Elementary OS 5.1 Hera

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Post by eptcyka » Fri, Dec 06, 2019, 10:33 AM UTC

saintPirelli wrote: post #31

_bxg1 wrote: post #12

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.

Just last week I wrote a blog post about installing eOS on my SO's parents PC. They are not technical at all yet they have had (close to) no problem with switching from Windows to Linux thanks to eOS.

I have the exact opposite experience - the microphone doesn't work, everything is incredibly slow, my SO is buying a Windows 10 licence this christmas. It's a shame, the user was just fine with Cinnamon on Debian 5 years ago, but that machine and software is no longer good enough.

Re: Elementary OS 5.1 Hera

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Post by als0 » Fri, Dec 06, 2019, 10:49 AM UTC

nkkollaw wrote: post #58

als0 wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I do wonder from time to time why Elementary can’t be an installable package rather than an OS...

It is: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:elementary-os/stable && sudo apt install elementary-desktop Then, select elementary when you log in.

I didn’t realise. That’s great!

Re: Elementary OS 5.1 Hera

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Post by joshklein » Fri, Dec 06, 2019, 10:51 AM UTC

joshklein wrote: post #63

Is global menu possible on Elementary yet? Searches only turn up old links for the now-dead unity style, but nothing based on libdbusmenu. Still seems to me that Plasma with libdbusmenu-qt5 is the closest interface paradigm to MacOS for people trying to swap (not that there aren’t other problems), but glib and gtk versions exist so someone out there must be working on it?

Replying to myself with more info:

This is proving exceptionally hard to search the web for, so apologies if this is out of date, but it seems the answer was “no, and it never will be, so stop asking” as of 2018: https://twitter.com/danielfore/status/991836014070022144

Was this from before Elementary was positioning as the MacOS replacement? I can’t be the only one who thinks the global menu is one of the MacOS interface’s killer features.

I understand why it’s been hard under the X paradigm, but those crazy dbus people are pushing entire application interfaces through IPC now.

Re: Elementary OS 5.1 Hera

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Post by Theizestooke » Fri, Dec 06, 2019, 10:55 AM UTC

kuon wrote: post #64

While I use i3 on archlinux, I think elementary OS looks great and is a great alternative for less tech savvy users. I am very grateful to the elementary OS community for it existence. One other alternative could be Cinnamon.

Ease of use and UI preferences have nothing to do with tech saviness.