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A comment on Elementary OS – Fast, open, privacy-respecting replacement for Windows and macOS.

Re:Elementary OS – Fast, open, privacy-respecting replacemen... by mattycakes01 on Friday November 16, 2018 @08:18PM (#18473295)
It's basically just Pantheon with a custom skin. You can get similarly good results using the "arc" theme and any decent ubuntu-based distro.
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Re:Elementary OS – Fast, open, privacy-respecting replacemen... by cassidyjames on Friday November 16, 2018 @08:33PM (#18473357)
You realize elementary has created the entire Pantheon desktop environment, right? So, "It's just their desktop environment with their stylesheet, their apps, and the AppCenter ecosystem," is basically what you are saying. In which case, yeah, that's exactly what elementary OS is.
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Re:Elementary OS – Fast, open, privacy-respecting replacemen... by muthdra on Friday November 16, 2018 @08:28PM (#18473338)
`It's basically just ${desktopEnvironment} with a custom skin` can be humorously used for 90% of popular Linux distros but it's not really fair for any of them.
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