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I don't get all the hate of elementaryOS distro here on HN as a dev machine. I've worked before on osx, ubuntu, xubuntu and fedora. Comparing to other linux di
by lukaszkups 10y ago
I don't get all the hate of elementaryOS distro here on HN as a dev machine.
I've worked before on osx, ubuntu, xubuntu and fedora. Comparing to other linux distributions, it is just another linux-like system and works as a dev machine similar to any other distribution, but IMHO looks nicer.
Please, provide me information what makes elementaryOS worse than e.g. Ubuntu as a dev machine? (I'm a webdev working with cordova/phonegap, RoR, Django and Node.js every day and eOS works like a charm for me)
- srean 10y agoI have not used elementaryOS so I have no opinion about it, but if its raison d'etre or main differentiator is 'looks' I can imagine why many devs wont be going gaga over it. I care, but I care less about looks than I care about default installed dev tooling, or how well organized its package bundles are. (I believe its packages and package management is pretty similar or exactly the same as Ubuntu). I am less impressed with fancy, memory hogging, terminals with transparency and what not, give me rxvt (not bloated like xterm, but has enough of the functionality) and tmux (well screen will do fine too) I am happy. For example I like Debian testing more than Ubuntu as I find Debian's package groups better. I couldn't care less about unity. Or atleast I care less than I care about the ease of fiddling with non-mainstream languages. I can trust a whole lot of them being available in Debian testing in the right groups. It might just be familiarity.
- ebalit 10y agoIts main differentiator is "user experience" not "looks". This DE is great to use. Of course screenshots only show that it looks good. You need to experience it to really understand where it shines.