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ElementaryOS [1] is the only Linux distribution that seems to care more about design than functionality. [1] https://elementary.io https://elementary.io
by guessmyname 8y ago
ElementaryOS [1] is the only Linux distribution that seems to care more about design than functionality.
[1] https://elementary.io https://elementary.io
- matthewmacleod 8y agoAnd it appears to do that primarily by ripping off macOS. Not that this is necessarily a bad thing…
- ramenmeal 8y agoLooks like it'd fit in reddit.com/r/crappyoffbrands
- nextos 8y agoI loved the looks of classical Gnome. Say Ubuntu Edgy Eft (6.10). My favorite design these days is an extremely minimal UI. A tiling window manager (StumpWM), Emacs, a terminal (xterm) and a web browser (Firefox). It's very efficient, and solves the design issue by having almost no design at all. It can actually look really nice. See e.g. a some images from a random user with a similar setup: https://lepisma.github.io/wiki/misc/desktop.html https://lepisma.github.io/wiki/misc/desktop.html
- ashtonbaker 8y agoI tried i3wm for a while - are you able to compare that to StumpWM? I really like the idea of a tiling wm, but haven't gotten around to customizing it exactly the way I would want it.
- nextos 8y agoBoth are manual tiling window managers. I tried i3wm and I didn't like it that much, though. StumpWM is essentially Ratpoison reimplemented in Common Lisp. It's really good and stable, plus it resembles Emacs a lot. There's even a winner-mode. There's not much to say except that you can tweak it till infinity and extend it in CL. But for me most defaults are pretty good already.
- bunderbunder 8y agoFWIW, at least within certain bounds, design is functionality. My eyes aren't awesome (severe myopia + floaters), and, judging by the screenshots in TFA, I would have a difficult time working productively on KDE Neon due to some of the decisions around text.