Finally ! Gnome is back as default DE, I'm very pleased :D
No doubt in my mind now, Ubuntu it is.
Thanks to all of you who made this possible !
I guess Ubuntu will gain momentum and positive...
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Finally ! Gnome is back as default DE, I'm very pleased :D
No doubt in my mind now, Ubuntu it is.
Thanks to all of you who made this possible !
I guess Ubuntu will gain momentum and positive...
I hear you loud and clear, simply gave up on Ubuntu GNOME although it started out as a very very promising project in 2012. I still like everything GTK, had a brief encounter with elementary os...
Yes I could but I don't want Pantheon in it's current state, with all it's dependencies and shortcomings.
This is a standard Cinnamon desktop, all I did was install Plank from ricotz ppa, added it...
I have used both elementary os Luna and Freya.
Although Freya has a lot of improvements I still would recommend Luna, I never got Freya working with my locale language , Audience-mediaplayer is in...
Yes of course it's my opinion, it was my thoughts on what a possible success scenario could be ( not what it should be ), Unity is ok too but that doesn't change the fact that the Linux desktop...
You are right but....
When a given graphics card or hybrid combo is detected the ideal desktop should point you in a direction to a solution, eg. suggest a nvidia or amd driver and assist you in...
I agree with a lot of what you've posted.
A possible success scenario could be:
Ubuntu base system, with improved UEFI install routine.
Functionality out of the box like Mint, with improved...
As far as I can tell deepin uses HTML5.
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I personally don't think it's too late, as long as I can remember the Linux desktop has been playing catch up with both Mac and Win.
Ubuntu ( Mark ) has had his shoot at it, but missed as I see it,...
I hear ya'
I have been hit by the frustration 'blues' too, I think it happened when the GNOME developers decided to go for a half-baked GNOME3, Ubuntu decided to go for Unity and Mint began to work...
Exactly my opinion too, to give an example, the online accounts have now been removed from switchboard, why ? didn't they work ?
Audience, the video-player and Noise the music-player still need a...
If you are having trouble installing, please have a look at these two threads in the Antergos forum:
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If you like GNOME and GTK, like me, please don't cheat yourself from Antergos 2015.04.12
It has the latest GNOME 3.16 and it's freaking awesome !!
http://antergos.com/
"Antergos includes...
Ok !
Daniel Foré and crew decided to release Freya yesterday ??
http://blog.elementary.io/post/116134677986/freya-is-here
A bit early in my opinion, but never the less..
Freya is there and is...
Hi christopher9
Glad you finally got elementary to install :) I think the slowness probably is due to the opensource nvidia driver or have you installed the one from nvidia ? ( nvidia-331 ).
I...
In case you've missed it, Freya Beta2 is now released :D
Go get yourself a copy !
http://blog.elementaryos.org/post/110481021076/freya-beta-2-is-here
Alternative download from sourceforge:...
You can use the gnome disk tool for generating a live USB-stick too, it's quite easy if you have gnome-disks installed, Ubuntu and quite a few derivatives have.
You need a USB-stick you can spare...
Great news to those with a UEFI pc.
Bug #1355698 "Unable to boot via UEFI into installed freya system" has been closed.
So now you are able to install and boot Freya from a system with UEFI and...
Nothing beats Fedora21 when it comes to implementing the GNOME 3.14 DE, or ???
I have been following Tanglu for a while and I must say that I'm quite impressed how far it has gotten in...
I take my words back.
I have been test running Ubuntu MATE 14.04 and must say that I'm amazed, my KUDOS to the Ubuntu MATE developers =d>
It just seem more coherent and solid when compared to Mint...
@ /ADM
This thread is about elementary OS Freya, please respect this, bugs are to be expected, Freya is in heavy development.
If you have issues with Luna, please start a new thread and be specific...
Re. to my earlier post.
If you haven't seen it, the bounty has now been raised to 500$ :)
@vellon
Well then we have Gnome3 in common, I like Gnome3 very much too but IMHO it first became somewhat useful from the 3.4 release an on, it has been plagued with some instability because of it's...
Ah ! You like the WOW-effect, then you'll be happy to know that Compiz is a part of Mint Mate 17.1 "Rebecca". Go ahead knock yourself out, spinning cubes or wobbling the windows :biggrin:
BTW...
Mike, if Puppy works for you, then Puppy it is :) But... Don't cheat yourself of Mint Mate if you can spare the time ;)
I don't think it's fair to say that "Mate is maintenance-mode Gnome 2",...