Elementary OS 6: Amazing or Hyped?

Today we will have a look at the new Elementary OS release: Odin.
The new version features flatpak as an approach, containerized by design, and new theming options. Is this distro excellent or over-hyped?
#ElementaryOS #Flatpak #Linux

00:00 Introduction
06:45 Installer
08:07 OEM First Run
12:06 App Center Issues
20:15 Conclusions

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[pctlc]

I have to agree! some of the changes they have made are very welcomed to the desktop, however I do not understand the implementation of the App Centre? Alienating both sides is a very good choice of words!! Appreciate the Analysis Tom!!

[BtZealot]

Everyone thinks they love Elementary, but they really love the desktop.

[chasetheshine]

I think that your rant is completely justified. I really want to love elementary but I just can't

[anarita-]

Elementary OS is making their distro so limited that is making harder, confusing and scary to new users so in my option less is more but if you cross that line then you are only making things harder not easier which is the things a developer should NOT do when building their distro but that what Elementary OS is doing and becoming worse with every release it seems so not for me Elementary OS I will continue to stick with my beloved Linux Mint XFCE as it provides me with applications right off the bat with a good well organize software manager that includes Flatpak section for Flatpaks applications what a concept right LOL plus it not give me warnings messages because there is no need for it making the process not scary, easy and not confusing what a concept right :) LOL

[AlucardNoir]

As a Solus user, and by that I mean a rolling release distro user, I think it's not just hyped, but overhyped. It's one year out of date. Updating every 6 month to the latest ubuntu variant meant you'd be six months out of date. This is one year out of date when coming out, and that after a 3 year pause between releases. I pity anyone willing to even try it, let alone daily drive it for the next who knows how long.

Then again, I'm a roiling release user, if Solus didn't exist I'd have probably gone with Antergos - and that one died a month or two after I moved to linux full time - so I'd probably be back to using Windows by now. For servers, the stability of something like Ubuntu is great, but for desktop use, at least from a gaming perspective, anything other than rolling is a no go.

[ChristianClark]

Elementary OS is always my favorite "design" Linux of all Linux but KDE Neon is my favorite Linux to use and I can do A WHOLE LOT with KDE Neon, instead of Elementary OS. I mean, I do totally understand what the team of Elementary OS are doing. Most Linux Users don't understand. The Elementary OS team has a great goal and a great ideas of the future for Linux. As everyone always say that Elementary OS is Apple of Linux; which is very true. People need to remember that Elementary OS is still kind of "New Linux", instead of Ubuntu or Mint. Elementary OS will always be that one Linux, it will be Differently Morphous.

[taxaction]

I got to agree with you all way on this one. Hype!

[neffscape]

Lol, you're reaction made me roll on the floor laughing. You're absolutely right about everything, but I'm not that angry myself because I accepted EOS for what it is: a concept OS. As you pointed out, EOS is not for everybody, and it's absolutely not for new users. It's an experimental OS meant to rethink what Linux Desktop could be if people adopted their platform, but yet very few people care about another closed platform, that strives to be even more locked up than vanilla GNOME and that's why, while all pieces are theoretically there to develop something useful, there are simply no apps to be run, at least in the way the developers actually designed the system to work. Developers at Elementary (while dear and great human beings, don't get me wrong) are so incredibly "fundamentalists" that they'd rather have no apps available than giving you an app that was not designed with their HIG and their OS in mind. So they give you an empty appstore, and let you "sideload" every app, just because they know that there's in fact nothing that you can do with their os without sideloading apps. So everybody please realize that in this current state, EOS is to be admired, not to be used for real. But if you dare you can of course put your hands under the hood and try to use it, even as a daily driver if you accept the idea of using this concept OS as it is :-) - EDIT - I forgot to say that I actually use Elementary OS 6 to do things, and when properly configured (not excessively tweaked... I mean.. I just installed firefox and some apps from the repositories, enabled flathub and snapd) and everything works like a charm). It is also fairly lightweight. It's super fast!

[fabioarturo]

Hmm Amazing or Hyped both nothing I still use linux mint.

[tostoday]

It's a nice system just not exciting. The new Zorin 16 Pro is exciting because it's Gnome done right with no extension necessary to install to make it easier. All content creation software is already there at least for me. It's my vote for Distro of the year at least for creators. A superb system.

[electricalbatross]

I used to think trackpads sucked, then I used a good one. MacBook trackpads are basically the best, period. Old MacBooks run well, despite their hardware not being “allowed” to upgrade to current Mac OS (even considering intel’s incremental updates since their 3rd generation chips). All that to say they’re the best laptops to use Linux on since the Thinkpad. These gesture controls are a welcome addition.

[sbedivere]

Someone is a bit disappointed?
I was thinking about switching from Arch to Elementary on my home multimedia gaming system. Among other things I wanted to have a more out-of-the-box experience. Turns out that the box is way too small :-(

[mdavid]

EOS is trying to force everyone to stay "in house"..the walled garden approach. It looks nice though.

[warthunder]

I totally agree. I've tested since OS 4 to see if it was a good distro, and honestly it keeps getting worse. They prevent installing deb files out of the box by just not allowing them short of the terminal to be installed. And why if you are a flatpack based distro does flathub not setup out of the box to work??? And be a trusted source! Not a good time and its unfortunate as i see the potential. I'll stick to my Kubuntu if I want a apple looking computer.

[riseabove]

I have to agree. You are so on the money on this. Too bad nobody else is talking about this; so glad you did a video on this.

[diegoboss]

I prefer PoP_os because its more easier

[jsn]

I'm not a fan of elementaryOS and it's a real pet peeve of mine how people try and tell you how great epiphany is as a security browser. It looks nice out of the box but so do most distros and it's not really hard to get a GNOME, KDE, cinnamon or even XFCE DE looking snazzy regardless

[angelful]

Look Sir, the Emperor has no clothes!!

[Amos_Huclkeberry]

Would it kill them to add intelligent hiding or maximum window border integration to Wingpanel? It's a bar that's in my way. You can't move it or pin icons to it, it's a static bar that doesn't move.

[electricalbatross]

Elementary was so salty about PPAs they just decided to throw out the whole package manager. LOL