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Elementary OS 6 Odin

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Re: Elementary OS 6 Odin

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Post by tomc1985 »

brundolf wrote: post #37

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.…

On the desktop front, I've been hearing about virtualizing windows on Linux with a framebuffer that maps directly to the GPU. Then you get to keep something like 95% performance. I forget what it's called, but I remember seeing a subreddit for it. FBIO?

Re: Elementary OS 6 Odin

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Post by bobbylarrybobby »

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.

It's a sign of how crappy mainstream UI design has gotten that the thing that is really drawing me to elementary OS are the gradients, shadows, and edges that give its UI sense of depth -- not the Linux underpinnings, multitouch, or "App Store". It makes the UI 1000x easier to grok at a glance than the flat crap Microsoft and Apple have been pushing out over the past few years, and just plain looks good! I'd love for it to kick off a move back to that kind of design, but sadly it doesn't look like that's the direction things are heading.

Re: Elementary OS 6 Odin

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Post by OJFord »

I'm surprised they spend so much (presumably) time and effort on applications, especially 'Web' and 'Terminal'. How many users are actually going to use 'Web' as their browser?

That said, I wish them all the best, because I use 'Files' (but not the distro) since it's the best I've found for the odd occasion where I think using a GUI file manager will be easier than the command line. I still wouldn't say it's good, just the best I've found. (Not opening everything on a single-click is a vast improvement!)

Re: Elementary OS 6 Odin

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Post by temp8964 »

markofzen wrote: post #36
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.

But chrome doesn’t adjust screen setup.

Re: Elementary OS 6 Odin

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Post by _sigma »

tomc1985 wrote: post #41
brundolf wrote: post #37

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.…

On the desktop front, I've been hearing about virtualizing windows on Linux with a framebuffer that maps directly to the GPU. Then you get to keep something like 95% performance. I forget what it's called, but I remember seeing a subreddit for it. FBIO?

https://www.reddit.com/r/VFIO/

Re: Elementary OS 6 Odin

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Post by sylens »

input_sh wrote: post #2

I've been using it since the weekend and it's so great! My favourite feature is that it's all flatpak, allowing smartphone-like permissions for each desktop app — both first-party and any third-party from Flathub. I like it way more than snap and am glad there's an Ubuntu fork that works so wonderfully with it.

That feature does seem like the standout of their release notes to me

Re: Elementary OS 6 Odin

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Post by n8cpdx »

blacksmith_tb wrote: post #34
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).

Last I checked, VNC wasn’t really comparable to RDP in terms of performance. I work in a remote session basically all day long and it’s suitable for graphics and video among everything else.

Has that changed recently?

Re: Elementary OS 6 Odin

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Post by blacksmith_tb »

gogopuppygogo wrote: post #12
RandallBrown wrote: post #10

I've never heard of Elementrary before. Is the goal to have the look and feel of macOS?

It’s like popos but with MacOS look and feel.

Hmm, my impression of Pop!_OS is that it's a more opinionated Gnome desktop on a pretty standard Ubuntu base (I like their tiling options). elementary seems like a more ambitious project, but since they don't make and sell hardware too, (unlike System76 and Pop!) it seems like they have more of an uphill battle.

Re: Elementary OS 6 Odin

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Post by workerdrone451 »

AnIdiotOnTheNet wrote: post #28
input_sh wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can't say I've stumbled upon a lot of desktop apps (not terminal utilities) that are not on Flathub. The list is pretty long: https://flathub.org/apps/category/All From my experience, most of the popular proprietary ones (think: Slack, Discord, Spotify, whatever) are distributed both as a flatpak and as a snap, while more niche desktop apps are usually flatpak-exclusive (out of those options).

> Can't say I've stumbled upon a lot of desktop apps (not terminal utilities) that are not on Flathub. Perhaps you just don't use that many things that aren't really popular or well known? I can't find PuTTY and KeePass (though obviously there are alternatives in those cases), applications that both have Linux versions and that I use every day (and aren't even that unknown). Also, unfortunately the limitations of Fla…

Did you try flatseal for Wireshark? It abstracts the process of messing with permissions.

That being said, unless the flatpak has some features your distro version doesn't, for trusted software package is always preferred.

Flatpak is really for untrusted software/proprietary and projects that update with new features often.

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