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While the amount of work those upstream projects have contributed is indeed monumental, I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss elementary OS' contribution to the free software operating system landscape.

I think their work in providing a good UX for GNU\Linux operating systems is admirable and it's a very important step to really make something most would be happy to use.

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> I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss .. contribution

I am not dismissing their work, I just find the attitude a little snobbish. Just like if you gift-wrap something and you take credit for everything that's inside. The attitude is just wrong.

Why do you think that? Elementary is not the first distribution to focus on user experience and usability. Especially Ubuntu, on which they build their system, had that goal in mind, it's even in the name.

For me personally, I did not see much more in Elementary than an OSX clone.

It's not the first, yes, but in my opinion they're the best at it. Either way, it doesn't hurt having more than one organization working on good Linux UX.

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