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Myths about ElementaryOS

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Re: Myths about ElementaryOS

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Post by berdario »

ekianjo wrote: post #9
gy3b wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

First of all great work on Elementary. One thing that doesn't help with the "Copy of OSX" comments is the video on the front page where the desktop uses the Mountain Lion wallpaper.

> desktop uses the Mountain Lion wallpaper. It's not exactly the same as far as I know. You can use another picture of the same Galaxy without it being the same picture. Plus it appears for 5 seconds on the video and not all the time. They are other wallpapers shown in the video.

For those who are wondering which is the galaxy that is being talked about:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC_3190

Re: Myths about ElementaryOS

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Post by boyaka »

Brakenshire wrote: post #16

It's very impressive that a relatively small team could rewrite huge swathes of userland applications from scratch, and end up with something more polished and lighter-weight than much of the competition. It seems like the sort of thing which could happen as a matter of course if the money was there from the community to support developers working full-time over the long term on these sorts of projects. One thing I'd…

"You’ve made a $20.88 USD payment to elementary. This charge will appear on your statement as “WPY*elementary”"

I paid!

Re: Myths about ElementaryOS

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Post by arjie »

The 'outdated' comment stems from the fact that we depend very much on the repos. Being based on an old release means we don't have access to lots of software.

I use Elementary on the desktop and laptop and like it. Can't wait for dock improvements.

Re: Myths about ElementaryOS

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Post by Maskawanian »

JVIDEL wrote: post #11
lcnmrn wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When will translucency effect coming to elementary OS?

Open a terminal and enter this: cd ~ && mkdir -p ~/.temp-plank-themer && cd ~/.temp-plank-themer && wget https://github.com/rhoconlinux/plank-themer/archive/master.zip && unzip master.zip && cd plank-themer-master/ && rm -fR ~/.config/plank/dock1/theme_index; rm -fR ~/.config/plank/dock1/themes-repo; cp -a theme_index/ ~/.config/plank/dock1 && cp -a themes-repo/ ~/.config/plank/dock1 && cd ~ && rm -R ~/.temp-plank-th…

It goes without saying, it is ill advised to copy and paste terminal commands to the internet without knowing what they actually do...

Re: Myths about ElementaryOS

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Post by Maskawanian »

spain wrote: post #14
bndr wrote: post #7

The problem I have with elementaryOS is that there is no defined release schedule (like e.g Ubuntu or Fedora). So there's no ETAs or anything.

It's kind of sad too, because the Elementary developers originally planned to release Isis (the next release) around April to prove that they can stick to schedules [0], but that now seems to have changed to the usual "It'll be done when it's done." Relevant quote below: "Also, I think in general most of us think it would be the best idea to release Isis (see, I'm already going with it) as closely as possible to Ubun…

Which would be better though, a rush job, or something that has polish (which seems to be the whole goal of Elementary). I suppose it is kind of like the difference between Valve and so many other games publishers out there.

Re: Myths about ElementaryOS

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Post by munchor »

gy3b wrote: post #3
munchor wrote: post #2

As one of the people behind elementary OS, this blog posts pretty much summarises how hard of a time I have when reading online criticism on elementary OS. Feedback is good, we love it and realize how important it is. However, for the most part the complaints are not about the OS itself but instead on some of these myths (or worse even, how we're "just a blatant copy of OS X" when we have our own ideas and identity).…

First of all great work on Elementary. One thing that doesn't help with the "Copy of OSX" comments is the video on the front page where the desktop uses the Mountain Lion wallpaper.

It was a fan-made video, none of us could really make our own. It was pretty good so we decided to put it up on the front page.

Re: Myths about ElementaryOS

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Post by CJefferson »

munchor wrote: post #2

As one of the people behind elementary OS, this blog posts pretty much summarises how hard of a time I have when reading online criticism on elementary OS. Feedback is good, we love it and realize how important it is. However, for the most part the complaints are not about the OS itself but instead on some of these myths (or worse even, how we're "just a blatant copy of OS X" when we have our own ideas and identity).…

These replies do not help. For people who don't want to live on Ubuntu LTS versions (and such people probably don't want to install the first version of a new OS), Luna is "over 2 years old", and it was already seriously out of date when it came out.

Elementary OS know what people mean when they say Luna is out of date (all the packages are over 2 years old), yet give an answer that completely ignores that issue.

Re: Myths about ElementaryOS

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Post by opminion »

munchor wrote: post #2

As one of the people behind elementary OS, this blog posts pretty much summarises how hard of a time I have when reading online criticism on elementary OS. Feedback is good, we love it and realize how important it is. However, for the most part the complaints are not about the OS itself but instead on some of these myths (or worse even, how we're "just a blatant copy of OS X" when we have our own ideas and identity).…

Perhaps it could help make it easy for visitors of your site to know what elementaryOS is, even in broad strokes. I had to go to the main page and then scroll down a few screens until I found this sentence:

"elementary OS is a free replacement for Windows on the PC and OS X on the Mac."

Not having that at the top of the first screen, people do have to find this information elsewhere.

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