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Out in the Open: Say Hello to the Apple of Linux OSes

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This may sound silly, but ElementaryOS has revived my hope of a usable Linux desktop. And then some.

It stays out of my way completely. And when I need it, it's intuitive in use while looking beautifully. It's simple, but complete. Solid, for most parts.

Sure I have my gripes, and I've had to change my workflow a little, but the design and the 'out of your face' mentallity makes it worth it.

Compared to XFCE, for me it is far more focused and complete. It feels like a whole. Compared to GNOME, it does not try to reinvent the wheel, but it is not afraid of change either.

These guys cannot get enough good press.

Wired calling us "New Linux Operating System Is an Open Source Apple OS X" made me very sad. Still, I think we have to be happy for their article since media coverage and feedback is always more than welcome.

Personally (but I think other elementary hackers agree with me), I feel like we have our very own identity, philosophy and beliefs and it saddens me that Wired (and many other people too) consider us the "OS X" of Linux OSs. In my opinion, we are more than that, but we'll keep on working to proof just that hopefully.

> I feel like we have our very own identity, philosophy and beliefs

Care to articulate them here?

(I'm sorry about the attention your project received on Wired. That's really rough, I can't imagine what you must be going through, getting publicity like that.)

For me, pretty much everything looked like OSX. From music player to file system.

And that's not a bad thing IMHO.

I'm even downloading it right now.

I think eOS is a great distro. I used it for a week and I found it to be even more stable than Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. But it has a way too much mac appearance though, probably because of the dock?? I was using it on my work computer and someone stepped in to my cube and said...oh, you are using a Mac now! I tried to explain but the Mac tag was already there ..I went back to Ubuntu the next day.

wow, that's insecure! A co-worker mistakes your desktop for a mac and you take the time and trouble to switch operating systems!! haha.

if you only tried it for a week it's hard to make any judgement about stability. Even Windows can stay up for a week.

I feel like I should really be reconsidering using Linux as a primary OS.

Been doing that for 2-3 years now, and haven't been happier. :)

I do think Ubuntu and its ilk could improve their UI and make it a bit snazzier (like Elementary is doing), but you can use them as a primary OS now.

I've tried like hell, I mean I've really tried, been trying to use Ubuntu, but it just keeps failing me. Like copy & paste isn't reliable! Something that should just work, just fails for me all too often.

Copy and paste isn't reliable? I've been using it for a couple of years, never heard of that issue before.

I never have had a problem copying stuff in Nautilus or text editors in Ubuntu...the biggest problem I have dealt with is Nvidia drivers...but Ubuntu 13.10 runs very smooth on my laptop with nvidia drivers...Ubuntu is coming along pretty nice...

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