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I love the work that the elementary project is doing. Really great stuff...

• rocky1138 10y ago
  I tried running it this week since I have a lot of friends who use Macs. I figured I could help them out if they had questions, etc. But after a few minutes I went back to KDE as Elementary was horribly broken coming from Kububtu. It probably assumes you'll be installing from fresh.
  • boredpudding 10y ago
    elementary is indeed not meant to be 'just a desktop environment like gnome / kde'. Installing it that way is not supported. It's a full operating system including default apps, etc. all sorts of things you probably didn't install. You should indeed install it fresh. I hope you didn't give your friends a bad expression.
    • 72deluxe 10y ago
      But as others have stated, as you have access to all the giant repos, installing any other software than the elementary-oriented stuff instantly feels disjointed, as toolkits etc. don't match. This isn't really a problem with Elementary OS itself, more the proliferation of toolkits available, but to pretend that it is a drop-in replacement for a Mac (with its unified Cocoa UI) isn't quite right. (Yes, I know you can run FLTK and X apps on Mac so it's ugly too).
    • rocky1138 10y ago
      I didn't. I didn't tell them anything. I just don't have any interest in installing it full. Instead I went with KDE Neon.
      • youdontknowtho 10y ago
        KDE Neon looks great too. I really respect their work.