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All else aside, elementaryOS has (had?) an awful lot of promise. Linux desktop environments and graphical applications are often wildly inconsistent and not att

All else aside, elementaryOS has (had?) an awful lot of promise. Linux desktop environments and graphical applications are often wildly inconsistent and not attractive to look at. It has been nice to watch the development of a desktop that not only tries to looks the part but also has relatively few surprises in real use. It's a shame that another great open source project will suffer due to human differences.

28304283409234 5y ago
Reading this on ElementaryOS 6.1, paid for and all. After RedHat (the non-enterprise RedHat that is), Debian, Arch, this ElementaryOS was such a breath of fresh air. I really don't want to go back to XFCE or Gnome. I hope that somehow they still figure it out. :-/
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rg111 5y ago
> Linux desktop environments and graphical applications are often wildly inconsistent and not attractive to look at. Totally false. I have used KDE Neon, Kubuntu, and Pop OS. All of them are very nice to look at and have a consistent approach towards aesthetics.
IAmEveryone 5y ago
Elementary's "attractiveness" always felt skin-deep to me, triggering some uncanny valley effects more than enjoyment. Even the basic premise that what people like about Apple is adequately described by "attractive to look at" shows the error in thinking.
- gurkendoktor 5y ago
  I don't think that's the basic premise. elementary is not just a GTK theme, they have their own set of apps (for better or for worse) which follow their HIG, they are rewriting productivity apps to use the EDS backend throughout the system, they are trying to improve gesture support everywhere... It feels a lot like what made OS X so great about a decade ago.
ddtaylor 5y ago
Having switched from elementaryOS to Fedora 35 I am much happier with the latter. I think elementaryOS did some interesting things and made it clear some things needed to be better supported by gnome - one to one gestures, accent hinted buttons, light/dark theme standardization - but once these things got adopted into stock Gnome there aren't many reasons left to run elementaryOS. App Center is atrocious in so many ways whereas Gnome Software just works now and Flathub works very well and I don't see what value any of the elementaryOS stuff brings any more.

28304283409234 5y ago

Reading this on ElementaryOS 6.1, paid for and all. After RedHat (the non-enterprise RedHat that is), Debian, Arch, this ElementaryOS was such a breath of fresh air. I really don't want to go back to XFCE or Gnome. I hope that somehow they still figure it out. :-/

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rg111 5y ago

> Linux desktop environments and graphical applications are often wildly inconsistent and not attractive to look at. Totally false. I have used KDE Neon, Kubuntu, and Pop OS. All of them are very nice to look at and have a consistent approach towards aesthetics.

IAmEveryone 5y ago

Elementary's "attractiveness" always felt skin-deep to me, triggering some uncanny valley effects more than enjoyment. Even the basic premise that what people like about Apple is adequately described by "attractive to look at" shows the error in thinking.

gurkendoktor 5y ago
I don't think that's the basic premise. elementary is not just a GTK theme, they have their own set of apps (for better or for worse) which follow their HIG, they are rewriting productivity apps to use the EDS backend throughout the system, they are trying to improve gesture support everywhere... It feels a lot like what made OS X so great about a decade ago.

ddtaylor 5y ago

Having switched from elementaryOS to Fedora 35 I am much happier with the latter. I think elementaryOS did some interesting things and made it clear some things needed to be better supported by gnome - one to one gestures, accent hinted buttons, light/dark theme standardization - but once these things got adopted into stock Gnome there aren't many reasons left to run elementaryOS. App Center is atrocious in so many ways whereas Gnome Software just works now and Flathub works very well and I don't see what value any of the elementaryOS stuff brings any more.