Developers of U.S.-based Elementary OS recently released the community’s annual major update, Juno 5. What makes this distro so nontraditional is its own desktop interface, called “Pantheon.” This desktop interface is somewhat of a hybrid, inspired by Apple’s Debian Ubuntu-based OS X. It combines some similarities of the GNOME 3 Shell with the visual finesse of the OS X dock. Its Ubuntu underpinnings are anchored under the hood. What you see and use on the screen gives Elementary OS a distinct look and feel.
First, isn't OSX based on BSD, not Debian?
Also, I find the description of elementary/Pantheon as "disgraceful" to be rather harsh. While I don't imagine ever using it as a daily driver, it is an interesting illustration of the flexibility and diversity available under Linux. We have lots of distros to choose from and elementary will certainly be the one that some will be attracted to.
As for the money-grubbing, all of it is "requests" and anything may be downloaded and installed for free. The monitization scheme in and of itself is an interesting experiment and bears watching. Don't developers have the right to try to make a living?
Tim, Let me clarify the OSX reference. My intent was to suggest that BOTH OSX's launch dock AND the Debian-based Ubuntu Linux distro are reflected in the design of Elementary OS. Sorry if it imples that OSX is based on Debian.
You're a funny one, tim2. While you "don't imagine ever using it" - wise decison -, you praise it as "an interesting illustration of the flexibility (euphemism no. 1) and diversity (euphemism no. 2) available under Linux". That's a contradictio in adjecto. Because what are flexibility and diversity good for when they're only there for their own sake? And for serving the developers' showmanship? :-))
What I called "money-grubbing" you call "request" (euphemism no. 3) and you consider it "an interesting experiment" (euphemism no. 4). Unfortunalety, it's not that, but boundary crossing and aggressive begging. Remember that cartoon character with dollar signs in his eyes? He was funny as a caricature of ... (fill in the rest by yourself), but the developers aren't at all. Because?
Because they use thousands of components that are free of cost, developed by others (!) who do not charge or try to charge anything for them, or ever did, and then they invert, better: pervert the commonly accepted principle and try to get money for their watery soup, at every available opportunity, in an intrusive way. See why I call it boundary crossing?
If these developers who you take under your wings want to make a living - well, they should go to work. It's quite plain!
I can only agree with PrimeSuspect's judgement: Elementary is a disgrace, an enormous one. It's Oh! so stylish and chic - perfect crap for the fancy-schmancy smart phone generation. Superficialty and money-grubbing wherever you look, but little substance. That's what we call lowbrow. I'm glad that I can turn my back on it.
Elementary is a disgrace to the Linux world. First it forces users to accept the developers own system choices with little or no room for change and then nags users to pay for stuff they previously enjoyed for free. Of course there are costs we all appreciate that but if the true nature of open source has now overtaken Elementary to the point they need to force payment options down users throats, they should bow out gracefully and let those distros not going down this road to provide a truly free and configurable alternative, and of these there are many.
Pantheon Desktop Makes Linux Elementary
Posted by: Jack M. Germain December 12, 2018 12:39 PMDevelopers of U.S.-based Elementary OS recently released the community’s annual major update, Juno 5. What makes this distro so nontraditional is its own desktop interface, called “Pantheon.” This desktop interface is somewhat of a hybrid, inspired by Apple’s Debian Ubuntu-based OS X. It combines some similarities of the GNOME 3 Shell with the visual finesse of the OS X dock. Its Ubuntu underpinnings are anchored under the hood. What you see and use on the screen gives Elementary OS a distinct look and feel.
Also, I find the description of elementary/Pantheon as "disgraceful" to be rather harsh. While I don't imagine ever using it as a daily driver, it is an interesting illustration of the flexibility and diversity available under Linux. We have lots of distros to choose from and elementary will certainly be the one that some will be attracted to.
As for the money-grubbing, all of it is "requests" and anything may be downloaded and installed for free. The monitization scheme in and of itself is an interesting experiment and bears watching. Don't developers have the right to try to make a living?
Tim
Best wishes,
Jack
What I called "money-grubbing" you call "request" (euphemism no. 3) and you consider it "an interesting experiment" (euphemism no. 4). Unfortunalety, it's not that, but boundary crossing and aggressive begging. Remember that cartoon character with dollar signs in his eyes? He was funny as a caricature of ... (fill in the rest by yourself), but the developers aren't at all. Because?
Because they use thousands of components that are free of cost, developed by others (!) who do not charge or try to charge anything for them, or ever did, and then they invert, better: pervert the commonly accepted principle and try to get money for their watery soup, at every available opportunity, in an intrusive way. See why I call it boundary crossing?
If these developers who you take under your wings want to make a living - well, they should go to work. It's quite plain!