Great distro, I ran it on the daily too for a good while. It's extremely well designed and if you are willing to give the benefit of the doubt with its design opinions, I think you'll often come to agree with them (not all, but many)
Only thing I don't like about it was the bugs and not having an in-place upgrade path stops me from calling it a "beginner friendly" distribution. I admire their ambition though, given they're just a small boutique distro and they've done some great work for UX in the free desktop.
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I haven't tried ElementaryOS in years. It was always too opinionated for me.
But glad they are still releasing updated ISO's.
Agreed. It's not for me. But I gotta respect the game. They do a great job making a pretty UI in a world where everything is UI-by-engineer.
Some years ago (in the early days) I used it as daily driver in the office. My personal device was a MacBook.
I really enjoyed the highlights and hated the lowlights (UI breaks, and bodged updates).
Just for fun, I should really re-visit that distro and acknowledge the steady progress.
Great distro, I ran it on the daily too for a good while. It's extremely well designed and if you are willing to give the benefit of the doubt with its design opinions, I think you'll often come to agree with them (not all, but many)
Only thing I don't like about it was the bugs and not having an in-place upgrade path stops me from calling it a "beginner friendly" distribution. I admire their ambition though, given they're just a small boutique distro and they've done some great work for UX in the free desktop.
Are desktop shortcuts still a no-no with this distro?