Deepin 15.11 - The Linux Desktop Re-Imagined

A review and first look at the Deepin 15.11 distribution

[donporter]

Intriguing, I may try it. BTW, old bloke, I may be older. I am 73, a Canadian from Michigan State University, B.S. Computer Science, 1970. Glad to find your channel. Greetings from Thailand, sir.

[C]

I hope you feel better soon and thank you for this deepin video!

[Appalling]

Love your coffee/tea mug. Mr Grumpy...hell, that's me!

[DanCalloway]

A Quid is to a Pound in the UK as a Buck is to a Dollar in the US.

[colincomber]

Deepin fans are waiting for V20 (shown as U20 for some reason) in January - the beta version is download able now but not fully functional. Judging only on the beta I think it has been spoiled. An overlooked element of Deepin is Deepin Recovery, I am sure it was once part of the ISO but to reduce the size of the ISO it became a downloadable addon. It becomes available through the boot menu and loads to memory. It includes a number of tools like Gparted and Clone which can be used more readily from memory.

[dansnickles]

Hey OTB thanks for the video I have deepin on my desktop it is a really nice distro I know a lot of people won’t use it because it’s from China but I gotta say it’s really good and snappy.

[aytviewer]

Quite a bit of Deepin is similar to Mac OS X. Especially the "finder" and the main GUI interface fonts. At least Mac OS X as it was up until about 2-3 years ago as that is about the time that I stopped being a Mac User and jumped over to Windows 10 and various experimentation with Linux. As far as the British/UK slang goes, please keep using it!


Knowing that this distribution comes straight from China, I am very worried about using and keeping my privacy and data safe. This does not take anything away from the merits of its development and the look and feel which looks fantastic.


Once again, thanks for walking us through this OS.

[cimbakahn]

OldTechBloke: I like everything about its looks except for that huge bar that pops out on the right side.

[thorstenwanoth]

Have Deepin on my Samsung laptop for the last 2 years abouts. Remember it updated to 15.11 a good while ago. Heard rumours of China spyware on an earlier version if you can trust Google or FB or the interwebs. Dunno - might of been a plot that never happened!

In summary - I have zero complaints on my side - it works great on my laptop which is not my work machine but I could use it for work if I wanted to. Typed on my 2010 Core i5 750 running Windows 10 with 20GB RAM because it made sense to me. Sometimes there is just one too many old archaic programs that need to run on MS OS. That is the great tragedy. I reckon Deepin 15.11 is a FGOS with my limited knowledge.

[gerald]

I tried Manjaro with Deepin Desktop. Version 17 worked just fine. 18 did not. I don't have an issue with the gnome applications. But the Deepin Desktop does not put the applications in alphabetical order. That drove me crazy. You have to manually move them around but an update or changing to a traditional menu disarranges them. I installed the Deepin Linux version and it appeared to work when the Manjaro did not on my machine. At this moment the Manjaro Deepin version is no longer supported.

[andrewpalm]

Thanks for taking a look at Deepin so I don't have to, OTB. Looks nice, but remember--beauty is only skin deep. Cheers.

[MrMysterious]

I had a feeling Quid was just slang for Pounds. It's like Bucks is slang for Dollars.

[peterbreis]

I remember the Chinese Government saying about a decade ago that it was going to produce its own OS in competition to the American standards of Windows and macOS.

Do you know what became of that, and is Deepin a result of that project?

[peterbreis]

Flummoxed is not slang and it exists in American English as well. Quid is also part of American English according to the online dictionary.

[rrago]

I'm afraid of this distro, so I decided to go for Budgie. Tried Solus and didn't like its package manager. Then tried minimal Arc and Debian installations with Budgie-desktop and couldn't get them in full working states. Manjaro budgie was too "buggie" and Ubuntu Budgie too bloated. So, I installed Budgie in MX Linux and never been happier! Even the memory usage is similar to MX default Xfce.

[stefhannington]

I used this version of deepin for a bit a got slowly annoyed with it. I have since gone back to Solus OS and if I'm honest it's better than any distro out there. It's quicker, got a good desktop and is rock solid without crashing all the time.

[rezwanurrahman]

Deepin as a DE is great. As an OS, it sucks.

[ryandouglas]

I believe there is some dodgy stuff in that EULA.

[coelhocoelho-qntx]

Is a chinese operating sistem, ... ??

[garthdev]

mmm Okay Deepin have done some silly things and some great things. Firstly moving to QT was great and sorted out the multi-monitor crap they had before. The OS itself does seem to get better however they went from Debian unstable to stable biggest stupid mistake ever.. You can fix this in the repos by installing don't update then changing to unstable and then update and you're back. The HTML DE was good but QT fixed all the crap. But there is a but Deepin is better on Arch why well the software then the speed it's faster just snappy fast it's ridiculous..