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you guys should try libreoffice or WPS office!!

 

Microsoft Office 2010 actually works quite nice in Wine nowadays. I'm just too used to the ribbon to revert to classic-style things with dialogs everywhere.

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Yes, I've seen that, I mean it's been available for many, many of years, just not out of the box. (And before anyone decides to cry "third party", lets not forget your whole desktop is also third party.)

ive tried many alternatives for example http://www.betterdesktoptool.com/, but somehow its laggy for me.

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I'm always amazed how much the Linux community is able to accomplish in their free time without getting paid for most of it.

Most of these developers have their own jobs and dedicate some free time to develop for the community.
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Going to have to give this a whirl then, since everyone here seems to like it so much!

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The nice thing I found about Elementary is that once you get the keyboard shortcuts in your fingers and configure hot corners the way you like them, the window management is amazing.

 

 

but this is nothing special for elementary at all. kde based distros offer even more since long long time.

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but this is nothing special for elementary at all. kde based distros offer even more since long long time.

I guess sensible defaults is what Elementary wins on. They have actual designers and UX guys working on it. KDE, by default, looks quite bad. It's the usual Linux issue, where you have great coders but no designers or interaction specialists.

In Elementary you can just install it and get going. It'll look great and work great, without you having to configure a ton of stuff manually.

That value is very important to a lot of people, the people who don't want to or can't spend a lot of time configuring things themselves.

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I guess sensible defaults is what Elementary wins on. They have actual designers and UX guys working on it. KDE, by default, looks quite bad. It's the usual Linux issue, where you have great coders but no designers or interaction specialists.

In Elementary you can just install it and get going. It'll look great and work great, without you having to configure a ton of stuff manually.

That value is very important to a lot of people, the people who don't want to or can't spend a lot of time configuring things themselves.

 

i disagree here. kde can be made looking quite good with the right iconset, as i have shown in my distro.

elementary does nothing besides good looking. lacking features. that's a fact.

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I guess sensible defaults is what Elementary wins on. They have actual designers and UX guys working on it. KDE, by default, looks quite bad. It's the usual Linux issue, where you have great coders but no designers or interaction specialists.

In Elementary you can just install it and get going. It'll look great and work great, without you having to configure a ton of stuff manually.

That value is very important to a lot of people, the people who don't want to or can't spend a lot of time configuring things themselves.

I agree, imagine someone meeting linux for the first time. Their first impression can be "-damn that looks ugly and complicated" -you can customize it! "-well that sounds complicated too" or "damn that looks userfriendly and sexy" "-hell yeah!", i believe that was the only thing limiting linux as a mainstream os, ubuntu was cool once, but they ######ed it up. EOS looks a lot like osx really, but thats not a bad thing.

 

Eos is what linux needed to attract new users. Period. 

 

Noone wants an ugly baby, to fix him later. everyone want it to be cute out of the box... or the ######.

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But hang on, you can have all that on eOS as well, ofc. Not installed by default but possible. But again, you dont have anything of that in windows too so while I agree with you at some points, is not necessarily a major downside of eOS (or any other distro that lack those fetaures), each one has something to offer, each WM/DE too.

 

Dolphin >>>> Files (eOS)

 

But... Dolphin is on the market for YEARS now, the team behind it is huge, remember that!

 

KDE is more resource hungry so a laptop/ultrabook user might want to use something like eOS, Openbox, MATE, etc to keep it speedy

 

I do hope they implement stuff in Files (eOS) because its just barebones with looks now, but they will get there, they are not Thunar-like minimalistc hehe

 

Linux is great because of that, the integration, possibilities, pretty much endless :)

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Here's my 2 cents on this: To anyone who says "this build doesn't have this kernel, or this browser, or whatever", I say ######. These guys behind eOS are the first, I think, that understood the main Linux problem: user friendliness. It's the most polished distro I've ever used, and I used a LOT of them so far. It's just right for the common user that just wants to listen to some music, browse some websites, read mail and so on. Basic things I mean. That's why it's called "elementary". Obviously, for a power user, this distro seems too locked down out of the box, and I agree. But I think this is what a OS should be like out of the box. Because the majority of PC users are not power users, they don't know ###### about terminal, apt-get and stuff like this. eOS is something that even my grandmother could use, and this is GOOD. Who needs bells and whistles, like KDE that is a huge memory hog, or fancy GUI effects, like Compiz & stuff? Nobody seems to focus on the 1st user experience, the one after the installation. eOS is beautiful and it just WORKS. You want to mess with it further? No problem, but don't blame the team behind it because some app you like doesn't fit the overall design of the OS. I really agree and support the mentality behind eOS, and yes, I too think that this is the best Linux distro so far.

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Here's my 2 cents on this: To anyone who says "this build doesn't have this kernel, or this browser, or whatever", I say ######. These guys behind eOS are the first, I think, that understood the main Linux problem: user friendliness. It's the most polished distro I've ever used, and I used a LOT of them so far. It's just right for the common user that just wants to listen to some music, browse some websites, read mail and so on. Basic things I mean. That's why it's called "elementary". Obviously, for a power user, this distro seems too locked down out of the box, and I agree. But I think this is what a OS should be like out of the box. Because the majority of PC users are not power users, they don't know ###### about terminal, apt-get and stuff like this. eOS is something that even my grandmother could use, and this is GOOD. Who needs bells and whistles, like KDE that is a huge memory hog, or fancy GUI effects, like Compiz & stuff? Nobody seems to focus on the 1st user experience, the one after the installation. eOS is beautiful and it just WORKS. You want to mess with it further? No problem, but don't blame the team behind it because some app you like doesn't fit the overall design of the OS. I really agree and support the mentality behind eOS, and yes, I too think that this is the best Linux distro so far.

You understand very well what elementary OS is all about it... The main key is the user-friendly, beautiful interface and can be used even by my mom.
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Here's my 2 cents on this: To anyone who says "this build doesn't have this kernel, or this browser, or whatever", I say ######. These guys behind eOS are the first, I think, that understood the main Linux problem: user friendliness. It's the most polished distro I've ever used, and I used a LOT of them so far. It's just right for the common user that just wants to listen to some music, browse some websites, read mail and so on. Basic things I mean. That's why it's called "elementary". Obviously, for a power user, this distro seems too locked down out of the box, and I agree. But I think this is what a OS should be like out of the box. Because the majority of PC users are not power users, they don't know ###### about terminal, apt-get and stuff like this. eOS is something that even my grandmother could use, and this is GOOD. Who needs bells and whistles, like KDE that is a huge memory hog, or fancy GUI effects, like Compiz & stuff? Nobody seems to focus on the 1st user experience, the one after the installation. eOS is beautiful and it just WORKS. You want to mess with it further? No problem, but don't blame the team behind it because some app you like doesn't fit the overall design of the OS. I really agree and support the mentality behind eOS, and yes, I too think that this is the best Linux distro so far.

 

 

You understand very well what elementary OS is all about it... The main key is the user-friendly, beautiful interface and can be used even by my mom.

 

 i think we got a bunch of cents in here since i agree completely with you both

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i disagree here. kde can be made looking quite good with the right iconset, as i have shown in my distro.

elementary does nothing besides good looking. lacking features. that's a fact.

 

I don't think kde looks good.  I've tried so many times but I just don't like the kde design.  It takes more than icons to fix it.

 

I do like the elementary ui but i think they need to define it more.

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Here's my 2 cents on this: To anyone who says "this build doesn't have this kernel, or this browser, or whatever", I say ######. These guys behind eOS are the first, I think, that understood the main Linux problem: user friendliness. It's the most polished distro I've ever used, and I used a LOT of them so far. It's just right for the common user that just wants to listen to some music, browse some websites, read mail and so on. Basic things I mean. That's why it's called "elementary". Obviously, for a power user, this distro seems too locked down out of the box, and I agree. But I think this is what a OS should be like out of the box. Because the majority of PC users are not power users, they don't know ###### about terminal, apt-get and stuff like this. eOS is something that even my grandmother could use, and this is GOOD. Who needs bells and whistles, like KDE that is a huge memory hog, or fancy GUI effects, like Compiz & stuff? Nobody seems to focus on the 1st user experience, the one after the installation. eOS is beautiful and it just WORKS. You want to mess with it further? No problem, but don't blame the team behind it because some app you like doesn't fit the overall design of the OS. I really agree and support the mentality behind eOS, and yes, I too think that this is the best Linux distro so far.

 

Very well said. This is exactly what it's all about and I think it does a fantastic job too.

 

Being based on Ubuntu, the install is so straightforward just about anyone could make their way through the 7/8 "Next" clicks.

 

Once the install is complete it's entirely possible to use straight away without any fiddling around which is exactly why most people are still stuck on Windows - for the average user, it's ready to use. Users are fickle beasts. They want something simple that looks pretty and just works and works quickly. elementaryOS lives up to that need without costing a ?. 

 

Sure, some of us want a little more behind the scenes. We'd like this browser or 17 graphs telling us how our HDD and CPU are doing, does the average user really care what temperature component x is giving off? This (as many have said) is the beautiful thing about Linux Distro's. There is something for everyone. elementaryOS is for the early birds and basic users and I've already introduced a few people to it who couldn't be happier.

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I'm a little stunned. I just found out about this thing called PearOS (yeah, I don't read many Linux articles :laugh: ) and...it's almost identical to elementaryOS! Does this mean the eOS team continued that project?! :s I always thought this distro was developed from scratch (the GUI I mean).

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I'm a little stunned. I just found out about this thing called PearOS (yeah, I don't read many Linux articles :laugh: ) and...it's almost identical to elementaryOS! Does this mean the eOS team continued that project?! :s I always thought this distro was developed from scratch (the GUI I mean).

I believe PearOS was shut down by Apple because their were using similar icons of iOS and they were bought it. They never said the truth, the team later said that they were bought out (without mentioning the company) and then shut down.
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