Hi, I'm elruiz1993, maybe you remember me from Post classics like Pantheon: The Elementary Experience y How to get WiFi (Broadcom 43XX cards) on Debian and derivatives without internet connection. Taking advantage of the departure of Luna (beta 2) and that no one has written a word about her in DesdeLinux I'm going to tell you how things have gone for me these last few days.
ElementaryOS Luna is the next version of the OS from Daniel Foré and his team. It is based on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and differs from its progenitor in offering a fast, stable, light and above all, beautiful environment. Both its applications, icons and the desktop have an air of lightness, functionality and good taste that other operating systems would like.
WARNING: This article presents an operating system in beta, so if you want to test it you may have unexpected crashes or closures of applications. Its prolonged use can cause addiction.
Installation
On my old laptop (Intel Core 2 Duo, 3GB RAM, 500GB HDD, Integrated Intel) it didn't take more than 20mins to complete the installation. On rebooting I found that it recognized my partition with Windows 7 without problems and took me to my desktop ready for the test, except for the always annoying detail of my Wifi (which I fixed thanks to my previous article). A reboot and try 🙂
Welcome to the Pantheon (Again)
At the general design level, not much has changed: We still have Wingpanel (top panel), Plank (Dock) and Slingshot (Application Launcher).
Default applications
By default we have Pantheon Files (before Marlin) as a file browser, Music (before Noise) as a music player, Videos (before Totem) as a Video player, Geary as a post manager, Software Center (without Ubuntu references and with Steam ready to download), Scratch as a plain text editor and Switchboard as a Configuration Manager.
Pantheon Files
The file browser has the classic options (mount and unmount partitions, organize files, breadcums, etc). What I like is its new property chart, with a lot of style and personality. Comply with what is fair and necessary.
Music
Unlike the eponymous show that is cooking GNOME for 3.10, Music presents a less "revolutionary" style but very practical and enjoyable. After installing the proprietary packages it reproduced my collection without problems. Unlike last time, now both the equalizer and the multimedia keys work. I would not have more to add to this application if I did not have to reproach him for having removed all the covers from my albums for no apparent reason.
If you are in album art mode and you click on one, you will see the option to play the song you like from its great pop-up box.
Totem
The GNOME media player still works without problems once you install the correct codecs, but since I am used to my dear Gnome-Mplayer I uninstalled it.
Gnome-Mplayer shows us what the new GTK theme looks like in third-party applications, the colorful icons for video playback and the wisdom of Gin-san
switch board
As I mentioned in my previous article, this was one of the programs that I had the most faith in, since it is a global and expandable configuration manager for all those who wanted to use it. So far the only application that has taken advantage of it is Plank, who thanks to Switchboard has a clear and simple graphical way to configure the size of the icons and the theme of the Dock.
Conclusion: Elemental, my dear Watson
Veteran users or staunch fans of a desktop may find it a desktop laden with functional options, lacking in customization options and lacking in key or much more complete applications, but for those of us who use Linux for convenience and speed, it is a luxury. It is a desktop based on current technologies, made with great care and a simple approach that I personally love.
I know there are applications that I did not try, so I invite you to complement the article and share your opinion in the comments.
Source and download: elementaryOS
Wallpapers: Stage Fright (2560X1440p)
Gnome-Mplayer capture anime: Gintama
Very nice your desk. I'll finish downloading Debian Wheezy to install it with XFCE because GNOME 3 is going to eat up the measly 32MB of video on my S3 card.
I don't know, for a computer with such low power, Openbox with tint2 or LXDE does not suit you? Greetings and thanks for reading
The LXDE is mediocre on customization; the OpenBox I did not touch it thoroughly, but the XFCE is the closest thing to GNOME 2 in terms of consumption of hardware and custom resources.
I'll wait until that distro completely stabilizes.
I tested it thoroughly and for a "strong" user of the operating system, it does not work, the graphical interface is too simplified.
Also by having Ubuntu 12.04 LTS as a base, which is fine for servers and corporate environments but not other environments, you are stuck with prehistoric applications - although not as much as in Debian.
Sure you can add PPAs ... and that's when installation conflicts begin, stability problems and of course forgetting to do a safe and quiet upgrade to the next system release.
Also adding PPAs to an LTS almost doesn't make sense right? It is a procedure diametrically opposed to the idea of an LTS.
The graphic section is a completely different topic: I am an unconditional fan 🙂
I actually have my KDE (in Chakra) built using the Elementary Luna colors, QtCurve and Aurorae mods found at kde-look.org.
KDE more aesthetics elementary OS: power and flexibility hand in hand with beauty and design. (I have no enies!)
http://i.imgur.com/RHXJFW5.jpg
"Besides having Ubuntu 12.04 LTS as a base, which is fine for servers and corporate environments but not other environments, you are stuck with prehistoric applications ..."
Since you don't use Ubuntu, right?
Neither is Debian.
I used it daily at work, both in desktop deploys and in internal servers in installations as I did to small and medium-sized companies and also at work since the developments of the company where I worked were made on Ubuntu.
Beyond the limitations of Ubuntu's base system and applications update scheme, your denying that PPAs are a miscarriage and a BIG headache is because you never used them in depth.
From the moment you add PPAs, you lose stability and support, even if it is the smallest and in principle innocuous application, not to mention the tedium of having to review each one of the PPAs when updating to a new version of the system, as long as you don't bust everything in said update.
Of course I don't use Ubuntu, I know it very well 😀
And I do not say it in a derogatory way but with a totally practical approach, Ubuntu was my first distribution and I have affection for that, in fact I thank it that it has always been problematic when one wants to touch the base system since that prompted me to look for new ones horizons 🙂
As for Lesbian, my dear elav, and leaving aside its objective of being a universal, community and free distribution, a very commendable objective and to which I adhere and for which I defend Debian tooth and nail, as I have already commented in Several opportunities, the distribution itself has some _fundamental_ shortcomings such as the blatant handling of upstream packages to adjust them to its way of building a GNU + Linux operating system: in this sense the only thing that makes Debian usable is the impressive community that it has and that it somehow "standardizes" the quirk with which the distro handles upstream packets.
For my part, I am migrating all my servers to Fedora, which does respect upstream standards and uses -in fact is at the forefront of modern tools such as systemd, which greatly simplifies distro administration.
If I find that the 13-month cycle is indeed cumbersome to use the distro on servers, I will have to migrate to CentOS and see how I can use current software - as needed.
Greetings.
* work work puff
How badly written the first paragraph was, to see if I get used to reviewing what was written before sending it xD
I don't know, honestly it seems like a rehash of ubuntu 12.04 :(, using the gnome shell appearance with some modifications, this implies that you eat all the bugs of libmutter 3.4 ... and I am not at all funny. The second thing ..., is I'm not attracted to this distro, for that I turn on the macbook air (I have it out there neglected) and voila…., at least it would have a real osx, with its itunes, with its safari etc xD
The libmutter thing cannot be, I did not mention it in the article because (I think) I said it in the past: they designed Gala as a window and effects manager to avoid precisely eating the problems of Gnome-Shell. Thanks for reading 🙂
gala is nothing more than a fork of libmutter, they are not engineers in graphic effects and other things, so I can assure you that the same problems of libmutter 3.4 are in gala.
sorry, I correct myself
Designer
Harvey Cabaguio
Posted 31 weeks 2 days ago
Gala is not a fork of Mutter. Gala just use the same basis as Mutter (libmutter).
I added the VLC and XFCE4.10 PPAs to my notebook's LTS and it was a gem.
Obviously, that's why I highlighted it in the conclusion, but for one of those users who use the computer to access the internet, watch movies and do a job from time to time (probably 70% of the population) we fall in love with it. This system is for someone who does not want to complicate his life more than to install the codecs (which comes as standard). Thanks for commenting 🙂
elruiz1993: right now I am writing this from my sister's laptop to which I installed the beta 1 of Luna and continue updating from that moment without any problem (knock on wood!).
It seems very nice to me but the limited functionality of the desktop is too small for me, so I copied many things to my KDE that I did not change for anything!
I fully adhere to your comment: for the vast number of non-IT people who use a PC, elementary OS covers their needs and demands.
gintama xD
An excellent series, it has action, comedy, famous phrases and a hypoglycemic hero. Too bad the last season is going to be canceled due to a low rating. Thanks for commenting 🙂
Ubuntu 12.04 is already on its 3rd maintenance update and Elementary is not yet in its final version ... and based on Ubuntu 12.04, not even 12.04.1 !!
hears ! that uses the repositories of ubuntu 12.04, with the sudo apt-get update, you already have the latest version of ubuntu xD
Actually no, with that command what you do is just update the list of packages from the repos.
If you don't know that, there is no point in explaining the difference between LTSs and what the intermediate versions are for.
Hey, or one, or you're a troll, or two, you don't know how to understand that Ubuntu 12.04.1 and 12.04.2 etc, are the same thing, with the only difference that 12.04.2 is updated, it's like a new snapshot, nothing else, you can update it with sudo apt-get update or sudo apt-get dist-upgrade and you get kernel 3.5. And you already have the new version, you can see that you are a ubuntunero xDDDDDDDDDD
NUG
* by the way, I wanted to write sudo apt-get upgrade
In Debian, the system updates are much more detailed, since they show you exactly what packages are going to be updated, plus it turns out to be much safer to do the updates by selecting nothing more than the files that will update the kernel and the version file to update.
@DanielC @ pandev92 In fact, Ubuntu is the Mandriva equivalent of slow .rpm packages (lousy package processing). Anyway, the good thing about the Ubuntu LTS repos is that they always use the version of Debian in which it will appear as Stable, and that makes Debian users have some packages up to date.
pandev92, you start answering my comments and even with errors, it is not the first time, and apparently it will not be the last, and you call me a troll?
Your cynicism is enormous, as great as your problems with reading and knowing what you criticize.
do not fight guys, we are community!
0 arguments :), but you get one saying that I don't know about updates from one distro to another, as if 12.4.1 and 12.4.2 were two different distros, which is even more fail. An applause
Now if you feel like crying, you can go and vent to deblinux-
A salu2
What apt-get update exactly does is update the repos sources and nothing else. The kernel update thing can take about 100 or 200 megabytes, depending on how critical the update is being given.
If I forget to put sudo apt-get upgrade, after sudo apt-get update, but generally if you do sudo apt-get update and close the terminal, the icon will appear in the unity, telling you that you have x updates.
Like ubuntu it gives me problems since I install the nvidia driver when I restart the screen stays black <_
Elementary is one of my favorite distros. I got my brother and my mom to drop windows by making them an account on elementary XD
By the way, they changed scratch in the last update, now it is much more functional. I hope they do something similar with noise and audience.
On a side note: how much versionitis there is !! All the applications that I use often are updated to recent versions (thanks to the ppa) and my system is stable.
I know, in all the time that I have used it, no program has exploited me. but as it is in Beta state, the clarification must be made.
elementary OS is anything but stable. My PC died after installing it, the grub did not show up. Use the supergrubdisk to repair it and gain access. After accessing I reached an OS that every 2 × 3 gave me errors. I decided to reinstall and this time the grub did not give me problems, but it was still just as unstable. Error messages, just drag the mouse over Plank to block the equipment, bad icons and views, etc. etc. elementaryOS is a beautiful distro, but its development is sooo slow. I wait for it since it was announced, even use Jupiter, the daily-builds and now the betas. I know that my PC is not the latest generation and I also know that they are still in beta, but they should already have a little more stability. I have an intel i5 + 4GB ram + 600GB HD.
"Hi, I'm Troy McClure ..." hahaha
Hahaha, there are 2 more references in the article
The one with the cake is a lie, right? 😀
And one more
Elementary my dear Watson?
Nope, that would be very obvious
Not on my guard 😀
It is in the title, it is more difficult and probably not as well known
Ahh, if you are interested, you can install the 3.8 kernel in elementary
from the repos? or from kernel .ubuntu .com / ~ kernel -ppa / mainline?
The repos, this is 3.5 and 3.8
excellent the truth very good but I do not detach myself from my XFCE in Linux Mint ... it is really light! 😀
then just another ISO comes out of 12.04.x
I have been using it for a day, and it looks very good, the truth is that it is fluid and fast, although the packages are very old, most of them are the same as those used by debian stable, such as gnome 3.4, kernel 3.2 , and even the kernel is 1,11 (debian uses xorg 1.12).
I was wrong, I meant that "even the xorg is 1.11" I did not mean the kernel
on my pc it goes full even though it is beta .. 🙂
Well, I have been testing it and it will definitely stay on my laptop, it goes like a shot, it is true that I had to use dconf for certain things on the desktop that did not convince me and fiddle with the style of the elementary theme, but once fixed, it's perfect. Looking forward to the final version.
forgive the stupidity, but could you put how you did it please ??. Thanks 🙂
I am a common user, and I installed this operating system to give life to a laptop that I installed a 64 gb solid disk.
I thought that because of its space it suited me, but as a common user I cannot see the calculation templates or read the documents that I download in my emails
I can't watch youtube videos either.
As a basic user I am looking for an operating system that is easy to use and that meets my simple needs