[morganvachon]

If you're ok with Ubuntu as a base OS, Elementary OS may be what you're looking for. It has (in my experience) the most modern macOS-like interface that is still minimalist enough to not get in the user's way. It is clean, fast, and beautiful to look at. I've been using it as a daily driver for over six months now and I'm still finding things to love about it.

I do wish it was based on a more sane (for my tastes) distro like Slackware or Gentoo, but that probably wouldn't work given how much it depends on the Ubuntu/Debian way of doing things under the hood. The fact that it has made me give up Slackware on the desktop still surprises me; I'd been using Slackware almost daily since about 2001 but the last few releases have felt trapped in the past while struggling to catch up to every other distro feature-wise. Maybe that's due to their insistence on remaining systemd-free (something I am proud of them for) but whatever the reason, I now only use Slackware on servers and really old hardware, and only use Elementary on the desktop. Anything else in either setting just doesn't compare.

[holtalanm]

ElementaryOS looks awesome.

I was going to put it on my Chromebook as my main OS, but theres a silly bug with the legacy BIOS for specifically my chromebook (Toshiba Chromebook 2 2015) that makes installing any Ubuntu flavor, or ElementaryOS, just not work.

I ended up putting Mint on it, since the OS installer would actually render.

Still want to try ElementaryOS someday.

[sammorrowdrums]

I've actually just bought the brand new XPS 13 developer, and planning to install eOS as soon as I get it! I believe I'll need to upgrade the kernel to get full use of the processor arch, but others have done it, and have mostly been successful.

It looks really good though, and the community behind it seems to be growing, so I'm hoping to become active contributor.

[nawtacawp]

Install the Elem OS DE on another distro?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pantheon

[morganvachon]

I've tried that and it's just lipstick on a pig. There's so much of Elementary that is more than just the DE itself, that makes it feel so complete and cohesive.

[daxelrod]

Can you expand on what some of those things are, or link to something that does? It sounds like a great lesson for other distros.

[morganvachon]

You can read a lot about it on their blog, specifically this post:

http://blog.elementary.io/post/153360513026/busting-major-my...

[nawtacawp]

Do you know if eOS collects any user data during use and sends it home?

[morganvachon]

It does collect data for use within the OS itself, to assist the user with searching their own system. My understanding is that none of this is ever sent out over the network. You can turn off individual data sources, or disable data collection altogether and use traditional command line tools for searching for your stuff. The linked screenshot is of the default settings under the Privacy tab in Settings, with a tooltip explaining why you would want to turn off collection.

http://i.imgur.com/1FbMQkm.png