Someone knows if this is a good fit for a dev machine: Rails, React, PostgreSQL & Elastisearch? VS Code?
Elementary OS – Fast, open, privacy-respecting replacement for Windows and macOS
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Re: Elementary OS – Fast, open, privacy-respecting replacement for Windows and macOS
#102I think there are 2 fundamental problems with Desktop Linux:
1. Linux doesn't even have a rock-solid gui toolkit on which different environments can be based:
a. The one which runs on Ubuntu by default and which is probably used on 90%+ installations of desktop Linux is GTK which is utterly a major nightmare to develop GUIs with.
b. The Qt library which powers KDE is simply not used all that widely. The flagship desktop environment using Qt is KDE which is downright ugly in its default installation.
Re: Elementary OS – Fast, open, privacy-respecting replacement for Windows and macOS
#103Some of the comments here feel weird. Elementary OS has picked a specific niche, and its arguably the best distribution in it. It has a really well designed and consistent UI experience, and you can't break it. I think most of you just don't realize how difficult linux is for people who barely understand how to use a Mac or Windows machine. Furthermore, linux is a world where mainstream distributions still release wi…
Minorly unfair on Mint since it is a 2 versions old screenshot being compared to present day version of Elementary.
Personally by far prefer the Mint paradigm: it is clear what is running and what is a launch icon without studying icon shading/overlays/dots..etc.
Re: Elementary OS – Fast, open, privacy-respecting replacement for Windows and macOS
#104I've recommended Fedora to several "I'm scared of computers" people recently and the experience has been very good. The new GNOME does require 5 minutes of tutorial, but after that they've been completely happy exploring on their own. The new "Software" app is an excellent GUI for installing new apps and updating the system. Personally I use Macs but if I didn't, Fedora would probably be my next choice. It has by far…
For the "I'm scared of computers" crowd, isn't it still a bit hands-on to get proprietary codecs so you won't run into to problems watching things like YouTube?
Does not happen anymore if you go for a distro like Mint.
Re: Elementary OS – Fast, open, privacy-respecting replacement for Windows and macOS
#105I'd love to have a Linux distro with the frontend of Elementary OS and the backend of Nixos. And I say that as a Microsoft employee. Are there efforts to make Nixos grandma-worthy? Or are the only pretty distros all reskins of Ubuntu?
Re: Elementary OS – Fast, open, privacy-respecting replacement for Windows and macOS
#106Earlier quoted context omitted.
With the T2 chip only macOS can run on Apple hardware now.
That's not true at all: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208330
The lastest news about that seems that the feature is actually not working or bugged out :
https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/471124
Re: Elementary OS – Fast, open, privacy-respecting replacement for Windows and macOS
#107The project is interesting and I have to give it props for being one of the few Linux distros that’s put the necessary level of thought into UI/UX and made consistency a priority. That said, I question some of their technical choices, most namely the choice of Vala as the project’s official language. Not that Vala is bad, but it’s incredibly niche at best and I think it severely limits contributions. Not many are goi…
This kind of attitude towards less popular programming languages is very damaging to the field of software engineering. Domain-specific languages are our best tool to combat the excessive complexity of software. The difficulty of learning a new programming language is overblown.
> The difficulty of learning a new programming language is overblown.
This is a value judgement, ripe for disagreement.
Why do you think learning a new programming language is not difficult, as others perceive?
Re: Elementary OS – Fast, open, privacy-respecting replacement for Windows and macOS
#108Some of the comments here feel weird. Elementary OS has picked a specific niche, and its arguably the best distribution in it. It has a really well designed and consistent UI experience, and you can't break it. I think most of you just don't realize how difficult linux is for people who barely understand how to use a Mac or Windows machine. Furthermore, linux is a world where mainstream distributions still release wi…
I hear these every so often.
Just curious if noticing or more so, even being bothered by them is the norm?
Example Mint, the font heights I wouldn't have noticed and definitely something I would not be consciously aware of if I used it. And I still don't know what's wrong with the render beyond it looking at bit outdated.
Am I the odd person here or is it a vocal minority that have issues with it?
Re: Elementary OS – Fast, open, privacy-respecting replacement for Windows and macOS
#109Some of the comments here feel weird. Elementary OS has picked a specific niche, and its arguably the best distribution in it. It has a really well designed and consistent UI experience, and you can't break it. I think most of you just don't realize how difficult linux is for people who barely understand how to use a Mac or Windows machine. Furthermore, linux is a world where mainstream distributions still release wi…
I hear these every so often. Just curious if noticing or more so, even being bothered by them is the norm? Example Mint, the font heights I wouldn't have noticed and definitely something I would not be consciously aware of if I used it. And I still don't know what's wrong with the render beyond it looking at bit outdated. Am I the odd person here or is it a vocal minority that have issues with it?
I dislike the Linux Mint desktop image, but that's trivially easy to swap out.
I genuinely can't see the other problems with the image, and I feel that it's not a good example to illustrate the point.
But I'm sure parent poster is right, and that linux desktop environments use a wierd mish-mash of icons and fonts with weird sizing and line heights.
Re: Elementary OS – Fast, open, privacy-respecting replacement for Windows and macOS
#110Some of the comments here feel weird. Elementary OS has picked a specific niche, and its arguably the best distribution in it. It has a really well designed and consistent UI experience, and you can't break it. I think most of you just don't realize how difficult linux is for people who barely understand how to use a Mac or Windows machine. Furthermore, linux is a world where mainstream distributions still release wi…
I hear these every so often. Just curious if noticing or more so, even being bothered by them is the norm? Example Mint, the font heights I wouldn't have noticed and definitely something I would not be consciously aware of if I used it. And I still don't know what's wrong with the render beyond it looking at bit outdated. Am I the odd person here or is it a vocal minority that have issues with it?
You are part of the vocal, online minority that doesn't look at Mint and cringe because it looks so amateur and dated.
Most people intuitively have a sense of whether the software they're using is elegant, polished, and user-friendly without necessarily being able to articulate that the "font heights", etc. are the problem.
By a common user's standards, Mint looks amateur and janky compared to Windows 10 and Mac OS.