Elementary OS Freya Beta 2

jarcane wrote: post #4

"Free and open" but the only way you can download it without it asking for a credit card number is manually entering $0 in the "custom" field?

In what way does that make it less free or open

Re: Elementary OS Freya Beta 2

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Post by ardemue » Sat, Feb 14, 2015, 2:45 PM UTC

jarcane wrote: post #4

"Free and open" but the only way you can download it without it asking for a credit card number is manually entering $0 in the "custom" field?

Ubuntu does mostly the same, except there's a "download without donation" link at the bottom : http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/contribute/?version=1...

Re: Elementary OS Freya Beta 2

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Post by joshuapants » Sat, Feb 14, 2015, 2:46 PM UTC

I find the window management to be pretty terrible. I guess this is trying to bridge the beginner distro gap between Windows and Ubuntu, because I couldn't see anyone seriously using it for very long. Then again I felt the same way about GNOME3, so maybe I'm not in the majority there.

Re: Elementary OS Freya Beta 2

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Post by bndr » Sat, Feb 14, 2015, 2:50 PM UTC

joshuapants wrote: post #7

I find the window management to be pretty terrible. I guess this is trying to bridge the beginner distro gap between Windows and Ubuntu, because I couldn't see anyone seriously using it for very long. Then again I felt the same way about GNOME3, so maybe I'm not in the majority there.

I actually find window management not that bad, it's similar to OS X in that matter.

Re: Elementary OS Freya Beta 2

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Post by gnud » Sat, Feb 14, 2015, 2:52 PM UTC

ubercow13 wrote: post #5

jarcane wrote: post #4

"Free and open" but the only way you can download it without it asking for a credit card number is manually entering $0 in the "custom" field?

In what way does that make it less free or open

It doesn't. This distro is supposed to be about design and usability, though. If that's their idea of usability, I think I'll go elsewhere.

Re: Elementary OS Freya Beta 2

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Post by microhex » Sat, Feb 14, 2015, 2:52 PM UTC

After that blog post of theirs where they called everyone who took advantage of the free option they provide "cheaters", why would I want to use or recommend a Linux distro that provides nothing but a shoddy OSX GUI ripoff?