Ubuntu Deepin Desktop Environment
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There are better screenshots behind the "Digital Assets" nav link, but I wouldn't have found that, or thought to look there for screenshots if I wasn't concerned about replies to this comment proving me wrong.
Subscribe to /r/unixporn for a single week and you will be absolutely amazed at the shit you will learn.
I cannot imagine why you would find the joy of configurability an "asinine dick swinging contest". I find /r/unixporn unpretentious and wholesome. I find most posts there done out of sheer joy and pride. No one is selling anything or shilling anything.
Having one DE emerge as victorious would greatly benefit linux desktops as a whole, even if it would kill customizability.
"Desktop environments on Linux is really the most asinine dick swinging contest I have ever witnessed in my life."
Good point.
(You’ve always been able to change the settings of the Dock, it’s just not in Apple’s UI. In older times you could replace PNG assets yourself. Modern stuff is vector based but can still be tweaked. Remember iconfactory?!)
If it brings you joy to tinker with your DE to that extent by all means go for it and have fun. Personally, I like to tinker with my toys and like to get shit done with my professional tools. My Mac is a professional tool.
The deepin desktop environment itself was pretty, but janky. The settings thing (on the right side of the screen) is difficult and unintuitive to navigate, and scrolling was still buggy when I used it in December (it will randomly skip sections or just get stuck when you scroll). The other apps felt similarly unpolished, like they'd put all their energy into the look rather than the boring stability side of things. In a few years it might be a nice DE, but it has a long way to go.
I've tried all of the major desktops over the past year in anticipation of 20.04, but I think I'll be moving to KDE once it comes out. It seems to have the most seamless integration of them all, and still allows me to control things. I just hope the performance is good.
I've used many different distros but I keep coming back to rock-solid Debian.
To be fair, OP mentioned that the official packages were often useless, not the distribution as a whole (you can often install custom packages / binaries, although it's not nice).
Either way I'm usually always switching to testing about half a year before it becomes stable. It usually already is pretty stable at that point, and if I do encounter an issue I like to report it to give a little bit back, to help make the next stable release a little more stable from the start. :-)
Certainly, section 4 of Canonical’s Intellectual Property Rights Policy [0] permits such use only if Canonical were to provide written permission to do so.
I presume they want to use the name until a take down notice arrives from Canonical and benefit from the brand till that time?
Give that Deepin are a company, I would expect their legal team to either prevent such misuse or to ensure that the written permission is stated on the front page.
[0] https://ubuntu.com/legal/intellectual-property-policy
Edit: changed “entity “ to “ product”
[1] https://github.com/arunpyasi, https://ubuntudde.com/ubuntudde-beta-200410-release-note/
I don't think it's a bad thing - non-default packages tend to not get much use, and are hard to brand.
I do agree the Linux distro ecosystem is a scattered mess. And that negative diversity of incompatible package managers and display systems goes against the standardizations that made POSIX dominant to begin with.
When I look at Elementary"OS", I see a branding built on the foundation of what could simply be Ubuntu Pantheon Remix.
The idea that these hundreds of mini distros is what caused desktop Linux to fail isn't true though. These projects are nothing more than the IT equivalent of your friend's mix tape. Or your girlfriend's slightly modified Martha Stewart recipe she boasts as her own.
Would love to see us move back towards linux being linux (a kernel) and less of a need to even 'join' a Distro or pick sides if you will.
You are really picking a package manager and a philosophy on upstream software ... it is unfortunate you're implicitly or inadvertently being forced to pick about 11,000 other things too.
Those 11k other things are usually the minimum needed to have a production ready system that doesn't require you as a user to jump through hoops to provision and maintain.
Either it does not come with a browser installed, or the browser is not added to that launch bar or they changed the browser icon but not the email client icon.
As the email client icon highlights, that icon theming does not make anything more beautiful because a lot of applications do not have an icon which would fit into the theme.
Network adapter selection, charging status and other things which most are not constantly interested in are in the middle of the most important UI element. Put those somewhere so that those are not constantly in my way.
Power button is also right there in the most important UI element. I don't know how others use their machines, but I'm not constantly pressing the power button of my computer. Put it somewhere where other unimportant things belong. And how does a power button, some number thingy and trash can belong to the same area?
Nothing makes sense. Default gnome and KDE are more beautiful and work better. Here's the default Ubuntu desktop https://149366088.v2.pressablecdn.com/wp-content/uploads/202... Browser icon looks like browser icon. Icons are beautiful as their original designer intended. System settings related things like network, battery and power thingies are moved away from the importan things.
I wonder why people still feel the need to come up with more DEs instead of contributing to the plenty of existing ones...
Wayland is not a DE though.
The cool and elegant design is impressive at first but gets tiresome usually.
[1] https://elementary.io/ [2] https://www.deepin.org/en/dde/
Why fork the entire OS? ...
So by imitating macOS look they got "the most beautiful desktop environment".
I don't get it. If I want macOS, I would run the real deal, either by buying a Mac or by doing a hackintosh install.
Earlier there were Linux distros trying to imitate Windows XP. That was bad, too.
I think time wasted and effort would be better spent on inventing something new or refining some ideas striving to do something better, trying to solve problems.
I don't get the problem this desktop environment solves. Are they catering to people who love Macs but don't want to use Macs? That's a rather tiny population.
Or maybe the problem they tried to solve was Linux having too few desktop environments.
You'll basically have the same thing.
Be free from GNU+Linux distro fragmentation
The distribution is widely praised for its aesthetics in various reviews, while also has been criticized for having used a statistical tracking service in its App Store, which was removed in July 2018.
Looking at the source code of one of the critical pieces of that distro, we can see that it has about 5 active devs (in the past 2 years). To me it looks like a strong project. Will be interesting to see where it is in 5 years. They need more presence on the various Linux news/discussion sites.
It was really nice that I could actually google things, and usually come to a mailing list or the FreeBSD manual for my version of the OS, and then actually be able to find what I was looking for and have it work (most of the time).
It's the opposite with Linux. Yeah, this is just another "hey lets copy osx and pretend we're actually doing something real" project, and more than likely, everything will work fine just like in the standard ubuntu, but it's still just another fragment in the already overcrowded and starting-to-stink-from-all-the-dead-projects ecosystem.
I get the freedom to do everything you want, fork this, change that, I get that 100%, but man it would be nice to have Linux be unified.
This is not eye-candy it's minimum s I need to get work done!
This is as low as a bar I can imagine but last time I checked from the mainstream Linux DEs, only a version of KDE/Plasma (can't stand KDE, so was a no-go out of the bat) had this.
And using SourceForge in 2020 doesn't fill me with confidence.
No, Elementary and Poppin don't count. I wish they did.
Whenever I use Linux I pretty much always end up right back at running Openbox because it ends up being one less thing to get in the way.