A Quick Look At The New Elementary OS 8

Elementary OS just released the long awaited version 8. In this video, I'm going to be taking a quick look at this release and giving my thoughts.

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[TheJQ]

Elementary OS is where I started my distro-hoppin' journey. The user-friendly distros like this play an important role luring in Windows/Mac users alike. Looks super approachable at a first glance.

[TheMadSqu]

If you change to the "secure" session on the login screen, you get into the wayland session.

[aanrofik]

Elementary OS was the first Linux distribution that made me fall in love with Linux. But I use Linux Mint now. Probably I will try back EOS again. Nice review, thanks!

[stefandhervlogs]

I am using Elementary OS8 as my daily driver. Took me under an hour to get up and running for my work flow and everything works really well. No bugs, no lagging and just a well built operating system. All the little changes such as update on restart for system updates and the need tk not have to restart for applications updates is another nice little feature. Themes are simple but nice, this system keeps out the way allowing you to just work without interruptions.

I think what would be nice is if they focused future versions on Debian alone as Ubuntu based I feel is no needed especially with the move to flatpaks and snaps not being used.

[LumpyMoose]

The thing that was a deal breaker for me, was an inability to upgrade in-place to the next OS release. This is simply not an option for beginners.

[peterp]

In some aspects it is better than gnome. wallpaper settings and overall look is very close, icons feel outdated.

[xperience-evolution]

A few years ago I was always looking forward to Elementary OS and was very impressed
...
Not anymore.

[demi-vie-deux]

Regardless of my political view, I AM entitled to use WHATEVER I want to use.

It's like not letting yourself breathe air because the people who have different perspectives also breathe the same air as you do.

The developers have NOTHING to do with their user's opinions.

[LinuxRenaissance]

I think this distro is well positioned as a product, as a complete package, but for some reason they failed in gaining meaninful traction.

[Namegoeshere-ophg]

Alt+F4 has been the awkward close window shortcut for decades on microshaft products.

[steventelfer]

After reading all the comments, i feel like a fool for installing it.

[The_One_]

I just installed Elementary and the install after i download an app on the App Store is so slow, is that normal?

[bobpeters]

I occasionally do a little exploratory distro hopping just to see what I may want to recommend to Linux newbies. On my last round of that, Elementary OS put a "Microsoft Data" partition on the SSD of the test computer I used. As did Pop! OS. Therefore, I couldn't in good conscience recommend either of those distros.

[Lubzy]

when u were looking at htop, discord was running so maybe ram usage is high because of that?

[josephines.youtube]

Uh, can someone bring me up to speed on why so many hate this distro here in the comments? I checked out the website and the only thing I could find that could tick people off is that you have to pay for the OS (I think? I only took a glance so I'm not sure). I'm genuinely curious as to why.

[pixsarys]

I always loved elementary, it's one of the only distros which doesn't look hideous
The unjustified toxicity elementary distro started receiving after Foré came out clearly reflects why Linux is not and will never make it in the desktop scene

[LilaHikes]

Research Raymond Chen and the history of ALT F4. He explains why that binding was used.

[C.Vitalizio]

This looks just like gnome. Their devs should just join forces with the gnome team.

[aktivex]

super shift c is actually closer to using 4 fingers

[cereal_experiments]

Hey DT, are you sure the creator allowed you to use the OS? 🤔