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Elementary OS Updates for July 2023
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I still remember fondly when elementary was relevant. It's been a while.
For sure. I daily drove it for a long time many years ago when it was starting.
I tried it again recently when I was looking for a Linux OS for my moms 2009 white MacBook, since the default DE wouldn’t be too hard for her to understand.
I forgot how you legit can’t customize anything without external tools, PPAs and DEB support is disabled and requires a terminal command to enable, which is not user friendly at all for people new to Linux. Their App Store is also super buggy and the updates would make it crash every time I tried to run them, so again, had to resort to the terminal.
Lastly, I was surprised at how poorly it ran. I know it has a Core 2 Duo and « only » 6 GB of RAM, but every other distro I tried (Solus, Mint Cinnamon, Fedora) ram perfectly fine.
It’s just sad because it used to be a nice distro IMO. Now I can’t see myself recommending it.
/rant over, sorry
It just seems to be based on an old version of Ubuntu too, half the features of my laptop don't work without serious tweaks while fedora just works
Bad management mainly. The cofounders fought and one basically expelled the other. And then there's the bad choices like removing .deb support by default. Also, it's a bit buggy nowadays.