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Discussion on: Why I'm sort of leaving Linux

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remalhaut

Did you ever try out elementary? I'd say one of its main selling points is that you're not supposed to customize anything but say the wallpaper

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Tim Apple

I really do like elementary. I’ve used it quite a bit. In the past year it and Pop!_OS have been my main distros. But I always end up leaving elementary, something about it bores me after awhile.

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remalhaut

Kind of like Windows for me :p

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Carl Draper

Elementary is too Apple like for me both in looks and in the devs attitudes, they don't like customisation, even worse than Gnome

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Tim Apple

elementary has the terminal so dialed in though. Out of the box I don't want to even mess with it. It looks so darn good as is. I like their text editor Code also.

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remalhaut

And the filemanager - last GUI FM with Miller columns left in Linux.

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Every time I'm getting annoyed at Gnome and have had a recent backup I go through a string of distros that always end up at Elementary for a month or more. Then I have to use something that requires a systray icon and I just go back to Ubuntu...

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Tim Apple

For elementary and indicators read this from my blog.. oldvetcodes.com/things-todo-after-...

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remalhaut

Nice. I'll keep that in mind for the next distro hopping cycle. Thanks!