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Elementary OS is a shallow, ugly, uninspired and lazy attempt to make money. It's trying really hard to imitate Apple – they even have these "Human Interface G

Elementary OS is a shallow, ugly, uninspired and lazy attempt to make money. It's trying really hard to imitate Apple – they even have these "Human Interface Guidelines" somewhere that read like some sort of Apple parody. In reality it's a fake, thin veneer of a user interface bolted onto a generic Linux distribution. Apple software may have their own faults. I think most of the whining is just boredom, but iTunes for example is definitely not the pinnacle of UI. But the beauty of macOS has always been in getting some things exactly right with the competence and attention of a master craftsman/woman. I'd name text rendering as an example, or sleep. Elementary OS is made by people who think wearing a turtleneck makes them Steve Jobs, but they just don't get that you also have to throw a prototype or two at your CXOs from time to time :) I don't think Linux on the desktop will benefit from such cloning. Just look at Open Office: a UI that perpetually felt four years out of date that probably took five times as many hours of work as the google docs that actually made Office unnecessary.

Longhanks 10y ago
The drama around their statement "choosing $0 is basically cheating" was the point where I lost interest in the project. (https://funnelfiasco.com/blog/2015/02/13/elementary-misses-the-point/ https://funnelfiasco.com/blog/2015/02/13/elementary-misses-t...)
Ezhik 10y ago
I honestly haven't paid attention to elementaryOS drama, but I don't want to give them shit if they are at least trying, even if not entirely successfully. I admire open source, but open source software suffers very strongly from "programmer design". It's a difficult process to get these things right, and I wouldn't expect some distribution to pop up overnight that does things on the same level of refinement as OS X. These things take time, and we need to encourage projects that do try.
- Shorel 10y ago
  Removing the window menu in all applications is not trying. Really, there is something as 'being too minimalist'. To the point of being almost useless. When I tried to use the default video player of EOS, there was no option in sight to add a subtitles file. I can understand not being able to fine tune the font used for subtitles. But removing the feature altogether?

Longhanks 10y ago

The drama around their statement "choosing $0 is basically cheating" was the point where I lost interest in the project. (https://funnelfiasco.com/blog/2015/02/13/elementary-misses-the-point/ https://funnelfiasco.com/blog/2015/02/13/elementary-misses-t...)

Ezhik 10y ago

I honestly haven't paid attention to elementaryOS drama, but I don't want to give them shit if they are at least trying, even if not entirely successfully. I admire open source, but open source software suffers very strongly from "programmer design". It's a difficult process to get these things right, and I wouldn't expect some distribution to pop up overnight that does things on the same level of refinement as OS X. These things take time, and we need to encourage projects that do try.

Shorel 10y ago
Removing the window menu in all applications is not trying. Really, there is something as 'being too minimalist'. To the point of being almost useless. When I tried to use the default video player of EOS, there was no option in sight to add a subtitles file. I can understand not being able to fine tune the font used for subtitles. But removing the feature altogether?