Check Solus instead
> I recently installed Solus and was pleasantly surprised
I don't have a detailed comparison or anything like that, I haven't used that many Linux desktop distros to begin with, but I did try Elementary OS and found it wanting.
There are some screens in this pdf
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5Ymf8oYXx-PSXU2eFlsR0NvY1E...