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Yeah...but the adverts do kinda make it on brand. It's catering to Windows refugees, so maybe for those folks it just feels like home! In all seriousness, if

Yeah...but the adverts do kinda make it on brand. It's catering to Windows refugees, so maybe for those folks it just feels like home! In all seriousness, if you're actually looking for a Linux distro for a less-techincal audience, check out ElementaryOS.

sheepscreek 3y ago
After being a GNOME fanboy for decades, v3.0 and beyond left me disillusioned. I took to ElementaryOS and Mate, which was alright. Then I discovered KDE Plasma (thanks to Steam Deck) and absolutely fell in love with it. Well, well, well…how the turn tables[1]. 1. https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=How%20the%20turn%20tables https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=How%20the%20...
- Infernal 3y ago
  So you use ElemantaryOS with the KDE Plasma desktop? Or Plasma on a different distro now?
  - sheepscreek 3y ago
    Ubuntu with KDE, or you can go for Kubuntu which comes with KDE pre-installed. Works with Wayland too.
ComputerGuru 3y ago
Obligatory reminder that elementaryOS, "the easiest to use Linux distro" made as a knockoff of macOS, expects users to format and reinstall every year when a new version is released. I can't recommend it.
- Santosh83 3y ago
  This is the case for most Linux distributions, except for LTS and rolling release, and the latter isn't newbie friendly, which leaves the only good experience newcomers have with Linux are the LTS releases with increasingly outdated userspace apps. I hope immutable distributions take off, which will make major upgrades easier and pristine rollback easy. The Linux space really needs a newbie friendly, immutable distro. I know of Vanilla OS, OpenSUSE Aeon & Fedora Silverblue... hope we get more competition.
  - EvanDotPro 3y ago
    As an anecdote, I've been upgrading a single install of Fedora stable for years without any issues.
    - BenjiWiebe 3y ago
      Same here. I love that aspect of Fedora. My main desktop has been upgraded-in-place for 8 or so years now.
  - ComputerGuru 3y ago
    I’ve been using Linux and BSD for twenty years and never ran an OS I couldn’t update to the next release, with the exception of elementary. Some make it easy and some don’t but elementary OS was the only one to say “sorry, no upgrade path for you.”
uwagar 3y ago
mx linux is fast!
jll29 3y ago
I thought ElementaryOS was dead due to infighting between the two cofounders, but it still seems to be going: https://elementary.io/ https://elementary.io/ (I had installed it on one box a few years ago and liked it, but moved back to Ubuntu once I learned about its conflict in the team.)
- silisili 3y ago
  I must say, if only able to use 3 adjectives in a headline, why would ethical be one, when it comes to visual software? Stable, beautiful, and elegant are three that come to mind that could have been used. I'm having trouble seeing how an open source DE can even be unethical.
still_grokking 3y ago
> ElementaryOS One person project… Of course no security team…

sheepscreek 3y ago

After being a GNOME fanboy for decades, v3.0 and beyond left me disillusioned. I took to ElementaryOS and Mate, which was alright. Then I discovered KDE Plasma (thanks to Steam Deck) and absolutely fell in love with it. Well, well, well…how the turn tables[1]. 1. https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=How%20the%20turn%20tables https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=How%20the%20...

Infernal 3y ago
So you use ElemantaryOS with the KDE Plasma desktop? Or Plasma on a different distro now?
- sheepscreek 3y ago
  Ubuntu with KDE, or you can go for Kubuntu which comes with KDE pre-installed. Works with Wayland too.

ComputerGuru 3y ago

Obligatory reminder that elementaryOS, "the easiest to use Linux distro" made as a knockoff of macOS, expects users to format and reinstall every year when a new version is released. I can't recommend it.

Santosh83 3y ago
This is the case for most Linux distributions, except for LTS and rolling release, and the latter isn't newbie friendly, which leaves the only good experience newcomers have with Linux are the LTS releases with increasingly outdated userspace apps. I hope immutable distributions take off, which will make major upgrades easier and pristine rollback easy. The Linux space really needs a newbie friendly, immutable distro. I know of Vanilla OS, OpenSUSE Aeon & Fedora Silverblue... hope we get more competition.
- EvanDotPro 3y ago
  As an anecdote, I've been upgrading a single install of Fedora stable for years without any issues.
  - BenjiWiebe 3y ago
    Same here. I love that aspect of Fedora. My main desktop has been upgraded-in-place for 8 or so years now.
- ComputerGuru 3y ago
  I’ve been using Linux and BSD for twenty years and never ran an OS I couldn’t update to the next release, with the exception of elementary. Some make it easy and some don’t but elementary OS was the only one to say “sorry, no upgrade path for you.”

uwagar 3y ago

mx linux is fast!

jll29 3y ago

I thought ElementaryOS was dead due to infighting between the two cofounders, but it still seems to be going: https://elementary.io/ https://elementary.io/ (I had installed it on one box a few years ago and liked it, but moved back to Ubuntu once I learned about its conflict in the team.)

silisili 3y ago
I must say, if only able to use 3 adjectives in a headline, why would ethical be one, when it comes to visual software? Stable, beautiful, and elegant are three that come to mind that could have been used. I'm having trouble seeing how an open source DE can even be unethical.

still_grokking 3y ago

> ElementaryOS One person project… Of course no security team…