Is there any difference between this and Debian+Pantheon?
Elementary OS
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Re: Elementary OS
#132The Mac UI ripoff issue may not matter to you, but it does to me. It's gross and slavish, like using a KIRF Chinese knockoff phone with stolen icons.
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Re: Elementary OS
#133Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Also, does sleep-on-closing-lid work well?" Funny story: My new-ish Dell laptop (Inspiron 15 7559 i7 with 4k touchscreen display; which I got at an absurdly low sales price from the Dell outlet store) does not reliably recover from sleep under Windows, but does under Linux (neither worked when I first got the laptop, but now only Windows fails and now only some of the time). That's a first, for me, as I have had a h…
Exactly! For example, Skylake support is not mature enough in Linux atm.
Can you give an example of issues? I’m running on a 6700 here with ARCH.
Re: Elementary OS
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#135I've used elementary OS for a few months now as my primary development environment. It's great to have set up in VirtualBox on 2/3 monitors, and the fact that it's based on Ubuntu makes finding support online pretty easy for someone not as experienced with Linux.
My biggest complaint is actually that the OS file selection interface (like what I get opening things in Sublime Text) is not same as the fancy finder application, but the default Ubuntu one that doesn't look consistent.
Re: Elementary OS
#136The Mac UI ripoff issue may not matter to you, but it does to me. It's gross and slavish, like using a KIRF Chinese knockoff phone with stolen icons.
I agree. Every time Elementary OS comes up, people are like, "Finally a nice looking Linux desktop!", and I'm over here thinking, "meh...regular old Gnome 3, as shipped with recent Fedora versions, looks nicer and more cohesive, to me."
Regular old Gnome3 is horrible to use with multiple screens.
Good luck running a program in full screen on your main monitor, while also doing stuff on a secondary monitor, where you have to switch windows, open new ones, etc.
Gnome3 is only useful on non-touch laptops, not on any other usecase.
Re: Elementary OS
#137Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Also, does sleep-on-closing-lid work well?" Funny story: My new-ish Dell laptop (Inspiron 15 7559 i7 with 4k touchscreen display; which I got at an absurdly low sales price from the Dell outlet store) does not reliably recover from sleep under Windows, but does under Linux (neither worked when I first got the laptop, but now only Windows fails and now only some of the time). That's a first, for me, as I have had a h…
Exactly! For example, Skylake support is not mature enough in Linux atm.
I think it's gotten pretty good in the past few months. As I mentioned, I had problems when I first installed Linux and it took longer than it historically has, but it's mostly been resolved with kernel and other updates. I can't think of any major issues; the 4k support in Linux is a bit quirky (but it's a bit quirky under Windows 10, as well), and so I've found myself fiddling more than I'd like on that front. But, there have been no showstoppers, even though my laptop has very new components on all fronts.
Re: Elementary OS
#138I love how it's called Elementary OS but it's just a Ubuntu Linux with some sugars. I already got excited about another operating system but it's same old, same old.
Re: Elementary OS
#139> It has polish and care that the stereotypical raging neckbeards who espouse the mantra of Linux on the desktop are unable to appreciate (or, apparently, build), and it has to exist, even if merely as a counterpoint to all the ugliness.
Please be nice :(. Some of those so-called "neckbeards" probably helped build the stack upon which things like elementaryOS rest.
Re: Elementary OS
#140Funny how everyone here in comments and author is saying "I really like Elementary OS" but nobody really wants/is ready to use it.
You're right. I played with multiple distros before settling on Ubuntu because it gives me the least headaches.