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I fully believe that Elementary survives only because 99% of those purported 400,000 downloads are really just YouTubers racing each other to apply some anime wallpaper and show it off on YouTube.

I firmly believe that Elementary OS has no utility over Arch/Fedora/Ubuntu and that any income they receive from donors is money ill-spent.

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My kids like it better than any other distro. I've donated a bit of money from time to time because that's what my kids use.

Aesthetics by default matter a ton. I'm on Linux Mint basically completely because I like the Cinnamon DE. Elementary looks great.

I like some of the built-in apps they have. They're nicely done and they're fast, I just wish regular Ubuntu would of adopted them into their ecosystem officially. I have no sane way to pull them into POP OS which I prefer for the OOTB experience I have.

Yes, it's based on Ubuntu, but it's not a remix. It's too different to be one:

- no Snap

- Flatpak instead

- Most standard Ubuntu apps missing

- In-house replacements for many Ubuntu standard components: their own browser, their own email client, their own calendar, their own media player, etc.

You can install the Pantheon desktop environment on standard Ubuntu.

https://askubuntu.com/questions/66757/how-to-install-the-pan...

P.S. > would of adopted them

* would _have_ adopted. "Would've" is short for "would have" not "would of" which never ever occurs in English. This is a common error but it drives me crazy.

English surprisingly (to most) is a second language for me so apologies, I always seem to forget the little nuance.

Also, I really just want their "Code" editor, but I don't want the headache of compiling it, I want it installed as a package, but its a pain to find it for me, not sure if I'm Googling incorrectly, but their editors name is not SEO friendly at all.

Ok then, you're forgiven. ;-)

As for the editor, I guess you mean this?

https://github.com/elementary/code

Yep! That's the one, its really nicely done, I'm surprised no other distro has adopted it or pulled it into their package management. It's not an overtly complicated editor I don't think, looks to be using standard GTK components which is actually really nice.

It's in a few places, but it's not a helpful name!

https://archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/pantheon-cod...

https://www.freshports.org/editors/elementary-code/

I use it. It’s decently well-designed and follows Ubuntu LTS, which I need because that’s what CTFs typically use.

If you find gnome too ugly and kde not opinionated enough then this is worth a try.

Okay!

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