Windows users may find this way of working to be a little alien, but it does become second nature very quickly. So any applications that are open will be pinned to dock and you can minimise/maximise them by clicking the corresponding icon. Elementary OS Luna doesn't quite work like a 'normal' operating system, in that you use the dock to manage the applications that you have open, instead of the panel like in Windows. The theme throughout the OS is a very elegant grey and blue one that is easy on the eye. It has an application dock at the bottom of the screen, and a panel at the top which features your application menu, clock, and system tray. The default look of Elementary OS Luna is simply gorgeous. Users who are new to Linux will undoubtedly like Elementary OS as they won't be overwhelmed with a bunch of options, nor will they need to jump into a terminal window as soon as they boot up. Elementary OS Luna allows me to do just that, and it looks great whilst it's at it. You shouldn't have to waste time fixing or tweaking it. The function of an operating system is to manage your apps, and then get out of the way. Is this some sort of right of passage to allow Linux power users to earn themselves this title? I disagree with that. But why? Just because it looks good and is easy to use? By that logic all Linux administrators or power users should use a crappy looking OS that's really difficult to use. The general consensus amongst the Linux community is that Elementary OS Luna is designed for Linux beginners, rather than power users. This includes writing their own window manager, desktop environment, file explorer, and a number of other applications – all of which are based around this concept of beauty meets simplicity.Įlementary OS Luna is a lot more than Ubuntu with some tweaks and a nice theme. It looked good and worked great, but for Elementary OS Luna the team have done a whole lot more. It's beautiful, elegant and possibly the best Linux experience out there right now.īack in 2011, Justin reviewed the original Elementary OS, Jupiter – which was then merely a stock version of Ubuntu 10.04 with a lot of tweaks under the hood and a make over on top. In fact, they just released the second version of their complete operating system, dubbed Elementary OS Luna. Since those days the Elementary team have progressed a lot.

They started out as a group of people that created a beautiful theme for Linux-based operating systems, but soon progressed to creating a number of small apps that were based around simplicity and beauty – like Geary, for email.

If you use Linux, you've heard of Elementary.

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