The Quintessential Linux Desktop Experiences
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@JaredBusch said in The Quintessential Linux Desktop Experiences:
I don't like Mint because it seems to be a slow update cycle. Has that changed?
No, and I agree, that's a big reason why I don't prefer it, too. But I'm trying to not make it a showcase of "things Scott likes" but more a base survey of the Linux desktop ecosystems that makes for a solid launching pad into other things that people might want to explore.
I will of course mention Korora and Ubuntu, both super important, especially Ubuntu. And others, there are loads of experimental desktops that are interesting, but I can't show everything.
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I've played with Solus and must say that it is very slick.
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still young but this is the reference kde now.
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@matteo-nunziati said in The Quintessential Linux Desktop Experiences:
still young but this is the reference kde now.
Not really. It's a secondary KDE bolt on to Ubuntu bypassing the mainline Kubuntu. openSuse remains the only major distro building with KDE in mind.
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What about Antergos? Based on Arch Linux but user friendly.
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@black3dynamite said in The Quintessential Linux Desktop Experiences:
What about Antergos? Based on Arch Linux but user friendly.
I've never seen it, looking now.
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@black3dynamite said in The Quintessential Linux Desktop Experiences:
What about Antergos? Based on Arch Linux but user friendly.
@black3dynamite said in The Quintessential Linux Desktop Experiences:
What about Antergos? Based on Arch Linux but user friendly.
Looks like a neat idea, but does it provide something important that is missing from the others? It doesn't have a focused desktop experience, it's primarily focused on Cinnamon which is covered from Mint where Cinnamon is developed.
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Seems to me Elementary OS is only one focused on one Desktop.
if Elementary OS comes preinstalled with gdebi and configured as the default package installer like Linux Mint that would help alot. -
@black3dynamite said in The Quintessential Linux Desktop Experiences:
Seems to me Elementary OS is only one focused on one Desktop.
Fedora, CentOS, openSuse, Ubuntu, Solus, Mint... they all focus on single desktops. They "offer" others, but they don't focus on them.
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@scottalanmiller said in The Quintessential Linux Desktop Experiences:
@black3dynamite said in The Quintessential Linux Desktop Experiences:
Seems to me Elementary OS is only one focused on one Desktop.
Fedora, CentOS, openSuse, Ubuntu, Solus, Mint... they all focus on single desktops. They "offer" others, but they don't focus on them.
But how many end users will know that those desktops is the main focus? Ubuntu, Fedora, Solus, and Elementary OS makes it easier.
That was the annoying thing about my first linux experience years ago. Not knowing which desktop is the main focus. Believe it or not, when unity was first introduced that made it easier on me to know that it's the main focus.
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@black3dynamite said in The Quintessential Linux Desktop Experiences:
But how many end users will know that those desktops is the main focus?
They don't really need to know.
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@black3dynamite said in The Quintessential Linux Desktop Experiences:
That was the annoying thing about my first linux experience years ago. Not knowing which desktop is the main focus. Believe it or not, when unity was first introduced that made it easier on me to know that it's the main focus.
What made it clear that Unity was the main focus compared, for example, to KDE on openSuse which has been its focused for decades and they were very, very public about that long before Ubuntu even existed?
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@scottalanmiller said in The Quintessential Linux Desktop Experiences:
@black3dynamite said in The Quintessential Linux Desktop Experiences:
That was the annoying thing about my first linux experience years ago. Not knowing which desktop is the main focus. Believe it or not, when unity was first introduced that made it easier on me to know that it's the main focus.
What made it clear that Unity was the main focus compared, for example, to KDE on openSuse which has been its focused for decades and they were very, very public about that long before Ubuntu even existed?
It's been awhile but I think it has something do with not liking KDE or comfortable with openSuse back then.
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@scottalanmiller said in The Quintessential Linux Desktop Experiences:
@black3dynamite said in The Quintessential Linux Desktop Experiences:
But how many end users will know that those desktops is the main focus?
They don't really need to know.
That's true until the user's wise up and asked, why so many desktop choices from Linux Mint. Is one better than the other? Which one is supported more than other? That's why avoid bringing up Mint to some users because of those questions.
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@black3dynamite said in The Quintessential Linux Desktop Experiences:
@scottalanmiller said in The Quintessential Linux Desktop Experiences:
@black3dynamite said in The Quintessential Linux Desktop Experiences:
But how many end users will know that those desktops is the main focus?
They don't really need to know.
That's true until the user's wise up and asked, why so many desktop choices from Linux Mint. Is one better than the other? Which one is supported more than other? That's why avoid bringing up Mint to some users because of those questions.
But that's the point.
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@scottalanmiller said in The Quintessential Linux Desktop Experiences:
@matteo-nunziati said in The Quintessential Linux Desktop Experiences:
still young but this is the reference kde now.
Not really. It's a secondary KDE bolt on to Ubuntu bypassing the mainline Kubuntu. openSuse remains the only major distro building with KDE in mind.
Yes opensuse is the only mainstream imho. But neon is no customization at all. Pure kde
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@matteo-nunziati said in The Quintessential Linux Desktop Experiences:
@scottalanmiller said in The Quintessential Linux Desktop Experiences:
@matteo-nunziati said in The Quintessential Linux Desktop Experiences:
still young but this is the reference kde now.
Not really. It's a secondary KDE bolt on to Ubuntu bypassing the mainline Kubuntu. openSuse remains the only major distro building with KDE in mind.
Yes opensuse is the only mainstream imho. But neon is no customization at all. Pure kde
Sort of, it's not customization of KDE but it is customization of Ubuntu. It's nice that there is a vanilla KDE implementation, but it isn't the top to bottom dedicated distro of KDE like openSuse is.
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A classic, just stumbled on this:
https://mangolassi.it/topic/112/what-is-your-favourite-linux-bsd-desktop-distro-2014-q1
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I think that this thread helped to spark a revolution in Linux desktop usage around here.
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Although I'm running Korora Cinnamon and Korora Gnome, Fedora with Gnome I think is the best if you want to keep things simple and have everything a typical introductory user would need, with the least amount of customization is potential issues.
Fedora 25 Gnome Desktop has worked best for me, where everything else has given me troubles out of the box.
I could probably go back to Fedora Gnome on my personal laptop now that I'm just simply not going to really play games on there, but I really like the way Korora flat icons and such look, and the terminal as SAM said. But if I ever do need to reload because I break something, I'm gonna stick on Fedora Gnome.
