Update: I chose mint. I can trust Mint to update the backend.
I’m about to switch back to Debian.Any reason I don’t know of that Elementary OS would be a bad idea? I know Debian. I don’t know the nuances of Arch or red hat.
I found my final missing FOSS video editor that finally gets me off Windows. I’ve been having issues with indexing on windows, and they keep turning on that fucking reminder to sign into One drive even after I destroy it with a registry change.
Strit ( @Strit@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show ) 22•3 months agoElementaryOS is a great system, if you need something that behaves and looks a bit like MacOS. It’s based on Ubuntu LTS versions, so should be good for a few years at a time.
macniel ( @DmMacniel@feddit.de ) 13•3 months agoThere really aren’t any reasons not to use Elementary OS. Sure it’s highly opinionated but that also means that it’s super cohesive and has superb user experience.
It has a Live Session so check it out if you like it and then simply install it.
Oh it’s my go to Linux distro. I wanted to know if there were any reasons not to use it and for better alternatives or opinions that could sway me to a different distro.
macniel ( @DmMacniel@feddit.de ) 1•3 months agoI would switch to eOS if there would be a word processor or a WYMIWYG editor that follows it’s guidelines. Because I damn love the cohesive look and feel.
Kornblumenratte ( @Kornblumenratte@feddit.de ) 10•3 months agoWhich FOSS video editor did you find?
Kdenlive like the other guy said. I was using shotcut for a while and it was…basic.
powermaker450 ( @powermaker450@discuss.tchncs.de ) English6•3 months agoin my personal experience of using it, it doesn’t feel very polished in most places + strange bugs like being unable to install certain packages. doesn’t have the comforts of a distro like Pop OS or Mint (i.e. automatic timeshift setup on first time boot, checking for missing dependencies for other packages). that’s just my personal opinion on it.
umbrella ( @umbrella@lemmy.ml ) 5•3 months agoits basically ubuntu LTS with probably the best DE
but its base is really old and they take their time to upgrade it. and there is no inplace upgrade method, you have to reinstall every time.
leopold ( @leopold@lemmy.kde.social ) English4•3 months agoElementaryOS has nothing to do with Red Hat or Arch. It’s Ubuntu LTS with a custom macOS-like desktop environment called Pantheon. Being based on Ubuntu LTS means packages only get updated every two years, so they can be a bit old. Debian has the same problem, tho. If you like macOS, you might want to use it. Otherwise, you might not. Worth noting that Pantheon is available on distros other than ElementaryOS (but not Debian).
Aatube ( @Aatube@kbin.melroy.org ) 3•3 months agoIt’s kinda unmaintained, last I heard
Gamma ( @GammaGames@beehaw.org ) English7•3 months agoWhere would you have heard that? Their org has projects updated within the last day: https://github.com/orgs/elementary/projects
justJanne ( @justJanne@startrek.website ) 7•3 months agoThat’s definitely wrong. You should follow danielle’s mastodon, she’s working on elementary all the time.
Nah they just brought about 7.1 if I’m not mistaken.
Altomes ( @Altomes@lemm.ee ) 3•3 months agoI used it for years and loved it but after a while the reinstall for every upgrade sucked and I ditched it and went to GNOME Fedora. I mean honestly Debian with GNOME is probably good enough but if you really wanted to you could install the pantheon desktop environment
downhomechunk [chicago] ( @downhomechunk@midwest.social ) English2•3 months agoNo reason here, other than the fact that it’s not slackware.
edric ( @scytale@lemm.ee ) 2•3 months agoSomeone correct me if I’m wrong, but don’t new major version upgrades of eOS require full re-installations?
Yea, this is actually why I switched back to try windows 11.
Gamma ( @GammaGames@beehaw.org ) English1•3 months agoYeah, it’s not too bad to back up manually (or with a tool)
f00f/eris ( @ipacialsection@startrek.website ) English2•3 months agoLast time I used Elementary OS, it was great if you were only using the official apps, with insane degrees of polish, but things like LibreOffice were surprisingly hard to configure the way I wanted. That was a while ago, though.
lodronsi ( @lodronsi@beehaw.org ) 2•3 months agoThis was my experience about a year or two ago. I was really impressed with how polished it was in ecosystem. Using Firefox, Typora, Plex and a bunch of other things that solved my user needs better don’t quite fit in right. When the update came that required me to wipe my system, I switched to Mint. I’m happy where I am now, but don’t believe Elementary was a bad thing - just clearly wasn’t aligned with what I needed.
𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘 ( @01189998819991197253@infosec.pub ) English1•3 months agoI found my final missing FOSS video editor
Which one? I’ve been looking for a good long term solution.
Kdenlive is great! Shotcut was too basic
𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘 ( @01189998819991197253@infosec.pub ) English1•3 months agoKden kept crashing on me a few years ago. I’ll give them another shot, though, because I loved it (aside from that).
dingdongitsabear ( @dingdongitsabear@lemmy.ml ) 1•3 months agoI am unfamiliar with the current state, my experiences are from a couple of years ago. I had problems with ubuntu-specific installs, ppas and the like, stuff broke easily on upgrades; that’s possibly not an issue anymore on account of flatpaks.
my biggest turnoff was that the default apps had their distinct look whereas 3rd party apps looked different. add to this the occasional QT app and the cacophony was too much to bear.
rollingflower ( @rollingflower@lemmy.kde.social ) Deutsch1•3 months agoFedora Pantheon or something. But really, GNOME, KDE, LXQt, Cinnamon, Mate, soom COSMIC are all in a better state.