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been running this for about a month now and love it

infact i rarely boot into windows these days

anybody else use this?

for me this is the first linux distro that has got the desktop just about right
 
arfoll said:
Uhm... ubuntu + new WM... I don't get people, why start another distro!

I guess some people love packaging a lot more than me ;-)
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Why did ubuntu start? Why does any distro exist over linux from scratch?

They wrote Pantheon and wanted it to work well out of the box. Yes you can install it yourself on ubuntu (or any linux distro) along with everything else but they've done it for you.

I really like the Pantheon WM and choice of apps for this distro. About time someone focused on eye candy (as the default).
 
arfoll said:
Uhm... ubuntu + new WM... I don't get people, why start another distro!

I guess some people love packaging a lot more than me ;-)
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Saying it's just Ubuntu with a new WM is pretty poor tbh, Ubuntu wasn't the start and creation of a Linux OS, they built it based on Debian around 8 or 9 years after the 1st Debian OS.

The idea is evolution, making something that works for people and letting users operate their computers in a way that suits them best. Not everyone is comfortable sitting there and installing a new WM, file manager or drivers, plus some people like rolling releases over a clean install for every OS release.

Lol, read that back and I sound like an anrgy Ubuntu hater :p
 
I took a brief look at Elementary in a VM last night and it does show a lot of promise. It seems a really nice blend of OSX features while still retaining windowa and linux features. I might try it for a bit longer.
 
arfoll said:
Here's to hoping you mean Distribution instead of OS ;-) And dw I know ubuntu is essentially a snapshot of debian testing + crud released every 6 months :D I'm far from being in the 'ubuntu' camp ;-) I just don't understand why someone would choose to create a new distro with the amount of choice out there. That's all.

After having done a year of packaging for a distro I have a few doubts such distro can really keep up with the likes of ubuntu/fedora/opensuse/arch.



FYI, I got the same thoughts about Mint linux. Just feel that we should have WM installers and teach people theres no need to completely reinstall an OS to change the way it looks. Are you seriously suggeting installing a dual boot over grub on EFI is harder than going: "sudo apt-get install mynewwm" and then choose it at login over your login manager? (and yeah I know that's a bit simplified!)



What? It's not a rolling release distro... I mostly use rolling release distros btw, great for dev, IMHO terrible for end users you where talking about ;-)
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I was meant to use the word OS rather than Distro to reiterate that Ubuntu were not the first and thats fair enough that your not in the Ubuntu camp, i was not trying to be rude and say you were, I can kinda understand where you are coming from. I was just trying to make a generic message, and thats why I mentioned rolling releases, not just focusing on Elementary.

Not trying to be a dic*, just voicing my opinion, nothing against you or being personal bro.
 
I use eOS on everything other than my gaming PC (for obv reasons atm!) been using it since jupiter (prev version before luna)
The Google+ community is most active for it tbh.

SteamOS might take it over though
 
Tried it as I wanted a Linux distro that was relatively close to OS X (purely as that's what I'm used to).

Not bad but its desktop environment is lacking IMO. Been a couple of months but it was definitely lacking some basic features.

Could be great though :)
 
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