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As someone who knows nothing about Elementary OS, you are correct. I dug into the blog a bit and all I can tell is that it's Ubuntu with some Gnome skins. Why w

As someone who knows nothing about Elementary OS, you are correct. I dug into the blog a bit and all I can tell is that it's Ubuntu with some Gnome skins. Why would I pay money for a free OS? What's the purpose? What need is this designed to fill? The site failed to inform.

wz1000 12y ago
I agree that the website it poorly designed, but you can download Elementary OS for free. Just enter 0 in the "Custom Amount" box. > I dug into the blog a bit and all I can tell is that it's Ubuntu with some Gnome skins. Not really. The eOS developers wrote a whole DE(Pantheon) and the included applications from scratch. The website does a very poor job of explaining that.
- wlesieutre 12y ago
  They used to have a better website. I think it was the victim of "upgrades".
  - amk_ 12y ago
    https://web.archive.org/web/20130302134643/http://elementaryos.org/journal/luna-beta-1-released https://web.archive.org/web/20130302134643/http://elementary... Release notes from a previous beta that explains more about the underlying infrastructure.
- mintplant 12y ago
  Their old developer website also explained some of the new technologies that Elementary OS exposes to applications: - Contractor (like Android's Intents): https://web.archive.org/web/20130314024115/http://elementaryos.org/docs/contractor https://web.archive.org/web/20130314024115/http://elementary... - Switchboard (unified, pluggable system settings): https://web.archive.org/web/20130314024137/http://elementaryos.org/docs/apis/switchboard https://web.archive.org/web/20130314024137/http://elementary... - Granite (GTK+ widget collection): https://web.archive.org/web/20130314024129/http://elementaryos.org/docs/apis/granite https://web.archive.org/web/20130314024129/http://elementary...
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djschnei 12y ago
Totally agree. Especially since this is far from Ubuntu with GNOME skins. In fact it doesn't use GNOME at all. It's a completely custom built desktop environment.
- mdadm 12y ago
  As I remember, elementaryOS originally was a customized GNOME, but they've since made everything their own.

wz1000 12y ago

I agree that the website it poorly designed, but you can download Elementary OS for free. Just enter 0 in the "Custom Amount" box. > I dug into the blog a bit and all I can tell is that it's Ubuntu with some Gnome skins. Not really. The eOS developers wrote a whole DE(Pantheon) and the included applications from scratch. The website does a very poor job of explaining that.

wlesieutre 12y ago
They used to have a better website. I think it was the victim of "upgrades".
- amk_ 12y ago
  https://web.archive.org/web/20130302134643/http://elementaryos.org/journal/luna-beta-1-released https://web.archive.org/web/20130302134643/http://elementary... Release notes from a previous beta that explains more about the underlying infrastructure.
mintplant 12y ago
Their old developer website also explained some of the new technologies that Elementary OS exposes to applications: - Contractor (like Android's Intents): https://web.archive.org/web/20130314024115/http://elementaryos.org/docs/contractor https://web.archive.org/web/20130314024115/http://elementary... - Switchboard (unified, pluggable system settings): https://web.archive.org/web/20130314024137/http://elementaryos.org/docs/apis/switchboard https://web.archive.org/web/20130314024137/http://elementary... - Granite (GTK+ widget collection): https://web.archive.org/web/20130314024129/http://elementaryos.org/docs/apis/granite https://web.archive.org/web/20130314024129/http://elementary...
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djschnei 12y ago

Totally agree. Especially since this is far from Ubuntu with GNOME skins. In fact it doesn't use GNOME at all. It's a completely custom built desktop environment.

mdadm 12y ago
As I remember, elementaryOS originally was a customized GNOME, but they've since made everything their own.