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Elementary OS 6 Odin

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Re: Elementary OS 6 Odin

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Post by AnIdiotOnTheNet »

horsawlarway wrote: post #25
AnIdiotOnTheNet wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unfortunately each has its own drawbacks and, in typical Linux Desktop fashion, it's 3 fragmented solutions to roughly the same problem with none of them being standard or enjoying a particularly de-facto status. The end result being that you can't get everything in any one of them, and often can't get a particular application in any of them.

As someone who's released commercial software on linux before - having only 3 solutions to target is actually pretty delightful (We still build .deb and .rpm as well, so 5 really, after snap, flatpak and appimage) Plus I find the general sandbox approach to be a LOT more stable - distro upgrades rarely causes issues, and dependencies are much easier to wrangle. Definitely still some hiccups, but overall it feels like…

> As someone who's released commercial software on linux before - having only 3 solutions to target is actually pretty delightful

I think that speaks to a particularly huge failure of Linux Desktop more than anything else.

Re: Elementary OS 6 Odin

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Post by dubcanada »

unicornporn wrote: post #26
drcongo wrote: post #17

Elementary is starting to actually look nicer than macOS. There's still some janky details here and there, but the overall design language is very nice.

As long as you only use GTK apps that is... Half (?) Of the apps I need are Qt and they will look out of place.

Qt look out of place no matter what OS you use them on though. So I don't feel that is a fault of Elementary OS.

Re: Elementary OS 6 Odin

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Post by Mikeb85 »

Wow looks great. This fell off my radar for a bit, looking pretty nice now. Not gonna lie, having Gnome + Flatpak on Ubuntu LTS base already puts it near the top of my list, the styling and added usability features puts it over the top.

Ubuntu LTS base is also great for developers, as it seems most cloud images these days are just that. I've tried installing/building tools on other distros that I like more than Ubuntu but they always seem to use wonky options, libraries that are too old/new or in strange places, and I end up back at Ubuntu.

Re: Elementary OS 6 Odin

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Post by blacksmith_tb »

temp8964 wrote: post #27

I have tried Linux desktop. One of the couple things I can’t get over with is remote. It seems there’s no straight and reliable way to remote to the same session of the host desktop. In addition, Windows RDP can also reliably adjust to client screen setup.

Hmm, VNC would normally be the way to handle that on Linux? If you have a session going and fire up your VNC server of choice, you should be able to connect to it from another machine (I can't say I do that much personally, though I did set up a little fanless box as dashboard kiosk that way for my team a while back).

Re: Elementary OS 6 Odin

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Post by markofzen »

temp8964 wrote: post #27

I have tried Linux desktop. One of the couple things I can’t get over with is remote. It seems there’s no straight and reliable way to remote to the same session of the host desktop. In addition, Windows RDP can also reliably adjust to client screen setup.

I had the same issue and used chrome remote desktop as a temporary measure that has worked well.

Re: Elementary OS 6 Odin

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Post by brundolf »

The main things keeping me from using Linux as a daily driver are:

1) My personal desktop has Windows for games

2) My laptops (personal and work) are Macs because Apple simply makes the best laptops

When I've dual-booted in the past it's been a huge pain, and I didn't end up bothering to switch to Linux very often in practice anyway. Linux laptops exist, but they tend to be spotty in terms of build-quality and power. Gaming on Linux can technically be done, but I don't want my expensive machine to be unable to play some things because of the OS.

There are lots of little things, most of which could be overcome with effort, but these days I'd rather use my devices than tinker with them most of the time.

I guess I just wish I had an excuse to use something like Elementary or PopOS. I would if I had an a) desktop that b) was mainly for projects. But alas, I don't.

Re: Elementary OS 6 Odin

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Post by onli »

Flex247A wrote: post #18
yboris wrote: post #14

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How can one live without the minimize button? What does the OS recommend instead?

You get used to the dock real quick. Or just install Elementary Tweaks.

> You get used to the dock real quick.

What's the connection between the dock and minimizing windows? I use a WM with a dock and that supports minimized windows just fine.

Re: Elementary OS 6 Odin

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Post by unicornporn »

dubcanada wrote: post #32
unicornporn wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As long as you only use GTK apps that is... Half (?) Of the apps I need are Qt and they will look out of place.

Qt look out of place no matter what OS you use them on though. So I don't feel that is a fault of Elementary OS.

I've been running KDE Neon and they don't look out of place.
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