I have not tested the OS so i will not comment about how snappier it is, but it just looks to me like one trying too hard to get OSx on Ubuntu. I applaud their efforts to build apps for it but still it would have been much better if they could have put their efforts in building something new, beyond already existing native desktop, may be an enhanced and better tiling wm to add to their os or something out of the box.
Elementary OS
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Re: Elementary OS
#82One of the really cool things about this is the readily available links to descriptions of the core applications. Easily the best-designed distro website I've ever seen. The bad news: branding collisions galore: The 'e' looks way too much like enlightenment's 'e', and enlightenment already has a project called elementary -- http://trac.enlightenment.org/e/wiki/Elementary The design of the whole bloody thing looks exa…
That people don't think about human interface guidelines because it's open source software is alarming as all hell.
To be fair, the portion of open source software which actually have that kind of guidelines instead of being just a shot from the individual developer's mind is very small.
Re: Elementary OS
#83Earlier quoted context omitted.
I was more so talking about Gnome 3. The titlebar fonts are generally okay, but the way fonts are rendered in web browsers on really any desktop environment in Linux versus how they're rendered in OS X or Windows are considerably worse. I'm referring to the visual style in general, there's a huge difference between having something work and enjoying using it, and Wine is most of the time the former, but rarely, if ev…
I guess I don't understand what you want. Like I said, Ubuntu fonts out of the box are rendered gorgeously and I've had similar or identical rendering in GNOME 3. Maybe it's just me, but I think these all look decent: http://i.imgur.com/4dGbR.png http://i.imgur.com/mfyjw.png http://i.imgur.com/BqOdg.png In fact, I would venture to guess you couldn't differentiate between Linux and Mac OS X (the Windows one is obvious…
The third one is Windows.
edit: I just looked at this thread again. I didn't fully scroll down and see that you already said it was Windows.
Ubuntu/Mac OS X both have distinctively different ways of font rendering. Windows' font rendering looks more readable (in my opinion), and OS X/Ubuntu's were designed for print.
I hastily put this together to better illustrate what I mean.
