I used Elementary OS for a few months this year. It’s quite nicely designed in places, but is based on Gnome 3 - which doesn’t make sense for an OS that is all

I used Elementary OS for a few months this year. It’s quite nicely designed in places, but is based on Gnome 3 - which doesn’t make sense for an OS that is all about UX, because Gnome 3 makes plenty of bad decisions and Elementary inherits them. Still, they have done their best to contain them and I think it’s better designed than any other modern Linux desktop. Couple of failure points: - the mail client is buggy to the point of being unusable. You could say that about any Linux GUI mail client, but this one is particularly bad. - Alt-Tab behaviour is strange and awful. If you want OS X but can’t afford it, this is as close as you’ll get, but it’s a long way off.