Last time I tried Elementary OS it _looked_ very nice but basic stuff like adding an HTML signature in the email client was missing. Did they improve on this front?
Why would you want an HTML signature?
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Re: Elementary OS
#42My mini Ask HN: After over a decade of using Mac OS X, I am considering switching to Linux for my dev laptop. The tools I worry about are those that interact with audio and webcam - Go To Meeting, Google Hangout etc. My work involves me having to teleconf with others often. Does anyone here have experience using Linux well in such scenarios. If so, what hardware are you using? Also, does sleep-on-closing-lid work wel…
If you rely on Skype in any way, avoid Linux. The Linux version was killed years ago and basic stuff like screen sharing isn't working as expected. Last time I tried (2+ years ago, it might be different now) Go To Meeting also wasn't working on Linux. I've used Linux on the desktop between 2009-2014 and basically anything multimedia related was a chore.
The web version of Skype works fine in Linux. Also, there is https://meet.jit.si/ - This works very well in WebRTC capable browsers.
Re: Elementary OS
#43I've been using elementaryOS for a few years now and just upgraded to Loki. On the whole it has been great, but there are just a few buggy elements that occasionally make me want to wipe the thing and start fresh with Ubuntu, which at least I can trust to not break. Hoping that eOS continues to become more polished.
Re: Elementary OS
#44My mini Ask HN: After over a decade of using Mac OS X, I am considering switching to Linux for my dev laptop. The tools I worry about are those that interact with audio and webcam - Go To Meeting, Google Hangout etc. My work involves me having to teleconf with others often. Does anyone here have experience using Linux well in such scenarios. If so, what hardware are you using? Also, does sleep-on-closing-lid work wel…
I have a Clevo 740su, the same model as the old Galago Ultrapro from System76 (I just got it from Sager instead) which has a webcam that works fine out of the box on Linux, the headphone jack works fine, etc. I use KDE and the plasma-pa tray applet easily lets you switch output audio devices for applications which I use (as an example) to playback movies from my desktop to TV.
Re: Elementary OS
#45Loading this page with JS disabled, all the images are blurred. Loading it with JS, there's a fancy fade-in animation on the images. What is the point of this? Why would you intentionally distort the images for people who browse with JS disabled?
because almost everyone has JavaScript enabled because websites are broken with it disabled…
Re: Elementary OS
#46Loading this page with JS disabled, all the images are blurred. Loading it with JS, there's a fancy fade-in animation on the images. What is the point of this? Why would you intentionally distort the images for people who browse with JS disabled?
It's a simple approach to lazy loading, so that you only download the images you actually want to view on a phone as you scroll to them.
(I also pick the right kind of image depending on your display DPI, and resize them on the back-end, but that's beside the point here)
I get a _lot_ of mobile visitors, and mobile bandwidth is expensive, so I'm considerate to them - folk with JavaScript disabled know how to re-enable it to view the images, and are a very minute percentage of my page views.
Sorry! :)
Re: Elementary OS
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
System76 might be what you're looking for here.
One of many, many resellers of generic China OEM laptops with zero development capacities by themselves.
Do you happen to know if they use Clevo, or somebody else? I'd be curious to know which China OEMs are at least marginally Linux friendly.
Re: Elementary OS
#49there is a linux OS built specifically for chromebooks called gallium OS https://galliumos.org/
OP here. It does not add anything that I wanted, and I had already ditched XFCE in favor of LXDE in the past. The point of the post was not to get Elementary running on a Chromebook, it was to see if I, coming from a Mac, could use it on a future desktop without issues and the usual ugly UIs Linux DEs have.
Re: Elementary OS
#50For me, only showstopper to migrate from Mac to Linux is alternative for iMovie and Lightroom. Any progress on this alternatives for Linux in last year or two? What programs do I need to check? Elementary is nice, it is also my backup OS, and I also donated some money to them 1 year ago.
Plenty of options there.
iMovie: Pitivi, OpenShot, KDEnlive and even Lightworks for something more advanced.
Lightroom: Darktable, Rawtherapee and Corel Aftershot Pro.