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Re: ElementaryOs Luna released

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Post by RussianCow »

wickedchap wrote: post #23
silverlight wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As someone who just watched the video but hasn't used it yet, that was my thought as well. Are they doing things design-wise and interface-wise that are different than OSX? Or are they simply aiming to re-implement OSX's GUI in Linux? (This is meant as an honest, non-sarcastic question, my curiosity is piqued but I'm genuinely wondering what their goal is)

If you know anything of design, Elementary is not a clone nor is mimicking OSX. Or, put differently; everybody is copying everybody. If you have good enough eye sight, then you can see that the difference between OSX and Elementary is huge. Dock was used before OSX, so you can't say that's copying from OSX. The light-gray colors and clinically clean interface was also used before OSX.

Yeah, but with Elementary OS, everything from the colors to the buttons to the layout of apps is almost identical to that of OS X. There's no innovation here--it's just Linux with the GUI of OS X. If I wanted that, I'd just use OS X.

Re: ElementaryOs Luna released

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Post by nosefrog »

tuananh wrote: post #24

Those saying they like Elementary OS should just switch to OS X. I like Ubuntu better. Why? Because Ubuntu offers some real innovations not just copycat/mimicking OS X like Elementary OS.

How many Linux distributions focus so much of their efforts on elegant, usable, and consistent design? I would mark that as elementary's primary innovation.

Re: ElementaryOs Luna released

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Post by computer »

pdknsk wrote: post #29

I have a question to the developers. If they like Mac OS X so much, why not just use it, rather than clone? I don't understand it. To make it slightly less obvious, they could've at least picked a different desktop picture. PS. I'm happy they chose Super Hexagon to show gaming.

One reason might be that OS X is not Open Source nor Free.

Re: ElementaryOs Luna released

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Post by silverlight »

wickedchap wrote: post #23
silverlight wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As someone who just watched the video but hasn't used it yet, that was my thought as well. Are they doing things design-wise and interface-wise that are different than OSX? Or are they simply aiming to re-implement OSX's GUI in Linux? (This is meant as an honest, non-sarcastic question, my curiosity is piqued but I'm genuinely wondering what their goal is)

If you know anything of design, Elementary is not a clone nor is mimicking OSX. Or, put differently; everybody is copying everybody. If you have good enough eye sight, then you can see that the difference between OSX and Elementary is huge. Dock was used before OSX, so you can't say that's copying from OSX. The light-gray colors and clinically clean interface was also used before OSX.

Sorry, I wasn't trying to be insulting or anything, as an OSX user, it just looks very similar to me, and I was hoping someone would point out a difference in philosophy or implementation, not that the dock was used pre-OSX (which I'm sure it was).

There was no reason to insult my eye-sight :-)

Re: ElementaryOs Luna released

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Post by unknownian »

nsmartt wrote: post #4

I really like a lot of the stuff Elementary is doing, but I loathe the way they're mimicking OS X. It's a complete deal breaker for me. It feels like a knock-off.

I used the desktop environment for a little bit and they even took the icon bounce from OS X. I hope Elementary succeeds but that was just meh. Especially since the physics of the bounce were off.

Re: ElementaryOs Luna released

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Post by u2328 »

This is cool. Finally, a Linux distro that I could set my less-than-technical friends and family with.

(Why not Ubuntu, you might ask? Simple: Ubuntu ships off their users' desktop search results to Amazon by default. I know it can be disabled and all that, but that's besides the point. I can't recommend software from people who don't respect their users' privacy.)

Re: ElementaryOs Luna released

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Post by jknightco »

nosefrog wrote: post #32
tuananh wrote: post #24

Those saying they like Elementary OS should just switch to OS X. I like Ubuntu better. Why? Because Ubuntu offers some real innovations not just copycat/mimicking OS X like Elementary OS.

How many Linux distributions focus so much of their efforts on elegant, usable, and consistent design? I would mark that as elementary's primary innovation.

But they focus none of there efforts on elegant, usable, and consistent design. Because none of the effort done was for design. Its literally a carbon copy of OS X. The layout, the colors, the gradients, the multitasking, the dock, the app bounce on the dock, the music app, the exposé style window layout, the mission control tile multiple desktop layout.

Any Linux distro with its own UI spent more time on elegant, usable, and consistent design than Elementary did.

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