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Cheetah Designs

Cheetah Designs

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I couldn't find a thread already on this so thought I'd start one.

I loaded it in a virtual machine and whilst it does well in being minimalistic, which is great, it still has the same cartoony linux look to me.

I think the choice in colours, icons and fonts let it down...

What do you guys think?
 
Cheetah Designs said:
I couldn't find a thread already on this so thought I'd start one.

I loaded it in a virtual machine and whilst it does well in being minimalistic, which is great, it still has the same cartoony linux look to me.

I think the choice in colours, icons and fonts let it down...

What do you guys think?
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I wouldn't call in cartoons at all tbh. If anything it's a bit too much like Mac OS X in the looks department for my liking.
It is however very very fast and surprisingly polished. I would like more configuration options as standard, but it is possible to change things with dsconf (I think that's it's name).

It may not be XFCE on Arch which is my other Linux setup but it is very nice to use.
I see it having huge potential.
 
But this is the beauty of Linux compared to Windows or OSX. If you try it and don't like it, be that for any reason including just the look of it, you can just move on to another distro or display manager.
 
I liked it, but I went back to Mint and Debian in the end. It was too locked down and restricted what I wanted to do with the OS, even with the community tweak tool etc. It was just too much hassle for what it was worth in the end. The desktop being un-usable out of the box, Geary (mail) not even having a delete option (only archive)... Seriously? Am I expected to be such a noob I can't even be trusted to decide whether I want to delete my mail forever? LOL Their Twitter client, Birdie, doesn't have a refresh feed button (or option) either. You have to click your photo and back to the feed a few times. WTH?

Yes it's all hackable, but I shouldn't have to. The theming is very nice overall, though a little heavy for what it is imho (it's based on Ubuntu 10.04 the same as Mint 13/Maya, which uses half the RAM elementary does and still manages to look pretty).

Skins, icons etc can all be changed. But everything just ended up annoying me so off it went. Nice concept though and I can see it maturing nicely. It does have some other perks so it wasn't all bad. Needs more work, however.
 
^^ When GMail was first released they didn't have a delete button either, only archive. Apparently it's still only an archive even though they now call the button delete.
 
Hades said:
^^ When GMail was first released they didn't have a delete button either, only archive. Apparently it's still only an archive even though they now call the button delete.
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I'm not sure on that, but I do know on the Gmail web UI and Android apps at least, delete sends mail to the Bin where you can delete it forever. Geary is certainly the first mail app I've seen without the ability to delete emails - especially a dedicated desktop mail app! It was otherwise quite nice, however, certainly.
 
I was thinking of putting this on my old laptop but it only has 1gb RAM

I currently have my laptop setup the same as my desktop with archlinux + openbox and it uses <300mb RAM at desktop & is nice and fast. (uses around 250mb RAM after boot)
 
mortals said:
I was thinking of putting this on my old laptop but it only has 1gb RAM

I currently have my laptop setup the same as my desktop with archlinux + openbox and it uses <300mb RAM at desktop & is nice and fast. (uses around 250mb RAM after boot)
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Expect Luna to use almost double that, it's rather resource-heavy. It does feel very snappy once loaded, but it's not something I'd personally put on a low-resource device. Try Lubuntu, Linux Mint Debian Edition or (as you said) Arch/Debian/Mint with OpenBox if you want something that'll feel fast and still has breathing room on that machine.

I really enjoyed playing with Lubuntu and #! (which is Debian stable + OpenBox), but the way you have to manually add entries to the apps menu every time you install something with OpenBox just put me off. It'd be my daily driver atm otherwise. As it is I'm on Mint 13 (LTS) with Mate again.

This machine is a Core2Duo with 2GB DDR2 RAM, 64GB SSD & 250GB hdd and onboard radeon graphics. So like your laptop not something I'd want bogging down with a heavy UI. :)
 
I didn't really think that luna was using that much ram/resources but it was impressively snappy and responsive.
I think their design language is possibly too simplistic for the linux crowd, but it's not that far away from being something you could comfortably work with.

It's one to watch and see how it matures, and as someone else mentioned that's the beauty of linux you can just download and try the different varieties/flavors of linux and see what you like.
 
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