Elementary OS, perhaps the Linux world’s best hope for the mainstream

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25 points·jseliger··6 comments

A recent large discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18472018

Lots of others: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Elementary%20OS%20points%3E30&...

Assuming Linux support[0] for Chrome OS gets out of beta that is basically already is or will become the best hope for mainstream. This is just based on usage percent and consumer availability opinion.

[0]: https://support.google.com/chromebook/answer/9145439?hl=en

Needs a hardware backer, like Asus, about 8 years ago. Looks incredible though, very beautiful UI.

>There's really no way to change the look and feel of elementary OS

Deal-breaker.

>There's really no way to change the look and feel of Windo-- I mean Mac OS-- I mean Elementary OS

Gosh, yeah -- how could a modern OS possibly hope to compete when you can't change how it looks?

That's essentially their value proposition, though. It's an Ubuntu-based distro that has nice (if opinionated) defaults. If you don't like them, you won't want to use it. I played with it on an old(er) laptop recently, and I found it to be fine (certainly more reasonable than Deepin[1] which often gets trotted out as another 'Linux for the masses'), but in the end it was more work to wrestle with it than the benefit of having an almost-macOS, so I went back to stock Ubuntu.

1: https://www.deepin.org/en/

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