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The Linux Desktop That Will Embarrass Windows 10 and macOS in 2020

8 points by Alupis 7y ago

ReverseCold 7y ago
There's incentive for China to have an OS of its own, so high quality/user-friendly Linux as a base makes sense.
folkhack 7y ago
A Chinese company sponsored Linux distro? I don't care how good it looks - that's gonna be a no from me. Also what a bogus sensational headline =|
- TokyoKid 7y ago
  Why do you hate China so much it would dissuade you from a major open source effort?
kick 7y ago
`folkhack is unfairly dissing it for being made by a Chinese company, but given it's completely free software, that fear is unfounded. Deepin is incredibly unstable and prone to freezing, though, which limits its appeal. The author probably hasn't used it much.
- folkhack 7y ago
  > folkhack is unfairly dissing it for being made by a Chinese company, but given it's completely free software, that fear is unfounded. LOL. I run Linux to keep "Big Brother" off of my systems, Microsoft and Windows 10 to be specific. Every company in China is beholden to the state, and state actors in China are insanely scary if you start to look into it. There's been an incredible amount of instances where China has slipped backdoors into ... well just about everything. I think it'd be ignorant to assume they wouldn't do this for an OS.
TokyoKid 7y ago
This looks great except for something I spied at the end: "Efficient mode" and "Fashion mode", where one looks like Windows and the other looks like macOS. There is obviously a great attention to detail in the trailer. But there might be a great misunderstanding of macOS that they call it "Fashion Mode". Furthermore, I think pursuing two window manager designs/desktops is a poor use of resources. It shows a reluctance to choose a target market as well. I wish them luck and hope they'll make some hard decisions and maintain the support of large tech companies. The ecosystem developing around RISC-V and Linux is exciting. Invention is the child of necessity, and the global unease is creating necessity for software and hardware not reliant on US/UK technology licensing. Open source folks should be excited about this side-effect of the unfortunate global tensions and posturing. There shouldn't be anti-Chinese comments here, but positive ones. It can't be that after years of Linux and open source evangelism, folks are dismissing or gate-keeping the movement based on race, language or anything. Stallman is giving talks at Microsoft, who historically attack open source and bought the world's biggest open source resource (Github). We're told to play nice with them now and they're an ally. And yet there's knee-jerk dismissal of an open source OS because a Chinese company used it on their devices. Gatekeeping Chinese out of open source is not only the worst possible thing to do for open source, but probably the worst thing for your career. Folks ought to be keeping up with these trends as China grows and spreads it's technology and brands. Resisting these positive changes because of the anti-china-rhetoric-of-the-day is foolish in more ways than one. Please excuse the rant. To whom it concerns: I'm a caucasian male in North America, with no financial or employment ties to China, so far as I know.
jrepinc 7y ago
No need to wait, KDE's Plasma already does an excellent work embarrassing them.

8 points by Alupis 7y ago

There's incentive for China to have an OS of its own, so high quality/user-friendly Linux as a base makes sense.

A Chinese company sponsored Linux distro? I don't care how good it looks - that's gonna be a no from me. Also what a bogus sensational headline =|

TokyoKid 7y ago
Why do you hate China so much it would dissuade you from a major open source effort?

kick 7y ago

`folkhack is unfairly dissing it for being made by a Chinese company, but given it's completely free software, that fear is unfounded. Deepin is incredibly unstable and prone to freezing, though, which limits its appeal. The author probably hasn't used it much.

folkhack 7y ago
> folkhack is unfairly dissing it for being made by a Chinese company, but given it's completely free software, that fear is unfounded. LOL. I run Linux to keep "Big Brother" off of my systems, Microsoft and Windows 10 to be specific. Every company in China is beholden to the state, and state actors in China are insanely scary if you start to look into it. There's been an incredible amount of instances where China has slipped backdoors into ... well just about everything. I think it'd be ignorant to assume they wouldn't do this for an OS.

TokyoKid 7y ago

This looks great except for something I spied at the end: "Efficient mode" and "Fashion mode", where one looks like Windows and the other looks like macOS. There is obviously a great attention to detail in the trailer. But there might be a great misunderstanding of macOS that they call it "Fashion Mode". Furthermore, I think pursuing two window manager designs/desktops is a poor use of resources. It shows a reluctance to choose a target market as well. I wish them luck and hope they'll make some hard decisions and maintain the support of large tech companies. The ecosystem developing around RISC-V and Linux is exciting. Invention is the child of necessity, and the global unease is creating necessity for software and hardware not reliant on US/UK technology licensing. Open source folks should be excited about this side-effect of the unfortunate global tensions and posturing. There shouldn't be anti-Chinese comments here, but positive ones. It can't be that after years of Linux and open source evangelism, folks are dismissing or gate-keeping the movement based on race, language or anything. Stallman is giving talks at Microsoft, who historically attack open source and bought the world's biggest open source resource (Github). We're told to play nice with them now and they're an ally. And yet there's knee-jerk dismissal of an open source OS because a Chinese company used it on their devices. Gatekeeping Chinese out of open source is not only the worst possible thing to do for open source, but probably the worst thing for your career. Folks ought to be keeping up with these trends as China grows and spreads it's technology and brands. Resisting these positive changes because of the anti-china-rhetoric-of-the-day is foolish in more ways than one. Please excuse the rant. To whom it concerns: I'm a caucasian male in North America, with no financial or employment ties to China, so far as I know.

jrepinc 7y ago

No need to wait, KDE's Plasma already does an excellent work embarrassing them.