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Elementary has been around for a long time. From what I recall, it tries to ape the Mac style on Linux the same way that KDE has been accused of aping Windows.

Elementary has been around for a long time. From what I recall, it tries to ape the Mac style on Linux the same way that KDE has been accused of aping Windows. The original founder (Cassidy James Blaede) is now a designer for GNOME: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJq8Cq9LixE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJq8Cq9LixE I wonder why this is on the front page today.

noosphr 1y ago
OP probably had to update Windows today. It's a weird world where KDE out of the box is more usable than Windows. I gave the wrong laptop to my mother a few months back and she only told me when she finished banking that the windows menu looked funny (Like the hacker one you put on the family computer when you were 12.) it was KDE. Usually she asks for help at least once on windows for getting the wifi connected. The year of desktop Linux was 5 years ago and we didn't even notice.
- carl_dr 1y ago
  /r/thathappened She had an account on the wrong laptop?
  - sgc 1y ago
    That is such an awkward comment and not really worthy of hn. Have you never logged into a bank website?
  - noosphr 1y ago
    All my pcs have a locked down guest/guest account which gets nuked on logout.
  - 553468907542358 1y ago
    Go back to reddit
taejavu 1y ago
It’s on the front page because Apple dropped the ball so hard with Tahoe that people are willing to entertain the thought of switching to just about anything other than macOS
- port11 1y ago
  It's very tempting… but first our Logitech peripherals would have to work reliably after sleep. I can put up with the other nonsense. Not being able to use the keyboard and mouse is what's preventing the home computer from being a Linux machine.
  - taejavu 1y ago
    I have experienced none of those specific issues myself, yet I still feel like you have described my overall Linux experience perfectly
    - port11 1y ago
      It's baffling. If you move the dongle to another USB port things work again. But!, the dongle can never go back to that same port. So after 4 sleeps we run out of ports and have to hard shutdown with the power button.
desiderantes 1y ago
One of the two founders. The other one is Danielle Foré, still running the project.

noosphr 1y ago

OP probably had to update Windows today. It's a weird world where KDE out of the box is more usable than Windows. I gave the wrong laptop to my mother a few months back and she only told me when she finished banking that the windows menu looked funny (Like the hacker one you put on the family computer when you were 12.) it was KDE. Usually she asks for help at least once on windows for getting the wifi connected. The year of desktop Linux was 5 years ago and we didn't even notice.

carl_dr 1y ago
/r/thathappened She had an account on the wrong laptop?
- sgc 1y ago
  That is such an awkward comment and not really worthy of hn. Have you never logged into a bank website?
- noosphr 1y ago
  All my pcs have a locked down guest/guest account which gets nuked on logout.
- 553468907542358 1y ago
  Go back to reddit

taejavu 1y ago

It’s on the front page because Apple dropped the ball so hard with Tahoe that people are willing to entertain the thought of switching to just about anything other than macOS

port11 1y ago
It's very tempting… but first our Logitech peripherals would have to work reliably after sleep. I can put up with the other nonsense. Not being able to use the keyboard and mouse is what's preventing the home computer from being a Linux machine.
- taejavu 1y ago
  I have experienced none of those specific issues myself, yet I still feel like you have described my overall Linux experience perfectly
  - port11 1y ago
    It's baffling. If you move the dongle to another USB port things work again. But!, the dongle can never go back to that same port. So after 4 sleeps we run out of ports and have to hard shutdown with the power button.

desiderantes 1y ago

One of the two founders. The other one is Danielle Foré, still running the project.