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What happened to elementary OS? (news.itsfoss.com)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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elementary OS may not be as much as popular as it used to be.

That being said, elementary OS 8 release is still on the horizon with some useful changes based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS.

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However, amidst disagreement between co-founders during the pandemic in 2022, co-founder Cassidy quit the elementary OS team.

Right after that, the development pace took a big hit, and we saw elementary OS 7 being released almost a year after Ubuntu 22.04 LTS came up.

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A good indicator about its development activity is its upcoming major release, elementary OS 8, based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS.

I took a sneak peek at it using the daily build, and elementary OS 8 is almost ready to have an RC release.

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You can expect things like:

The settings app handles system updates (instead of AppCenter)

AppCenter is now Flatpak only

New toggle menu icon giving you easy access to the screen reader, onscreen keyboard, font size, and other system settings

WireGuard VPN support

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Ubuntu, Mint, and to some extent PopOS are pegged as easy Windows/MacOS alternatives, just like ElementaryOS. They're still popular.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Ubuntu was the “original” easy-to-use Linux desktop. It expanded into that demand and still enjoys the market share it got when nobody else was really filling that niche.

Mint exists explicitly as a fork of Ubuntu and enjoys less success as a result. Many, including me, think Mint does a better job at being a solid desktop option than Ubuntu and is kind of the goto distro for that now ( not still not as popular as Ubuntu still is ).

Elementary is a curated desktop for people that really like coherence and design. That is, first of all, a more demanding target. It is perhaps too ambitious for their scale. And they have stumbled in execution. The task might be easier if they focussed on just being a DE ( desktop environment ) that other distros could use.

An “official” Ubuntu or Mint spin would have a real shot.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Pop is the only one that really ever makes any reference to windows in its marketing. I'm more talking about distros like Zorin which are targeting public sector orgs and windows users by bundling windows compatibility apps and features into the ISO.

The other examples definitely do also target "new users" which of course means Windows users too, but they aren't explicitly tying their distros to Windows software compatibility the same way some are.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Pop is the only one that really ever makes any reference to windows in its marketing

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

First line of the the description of Zorin on zorin.com/os

“Zorin OS is the alternative to Windows”

https://zorin.com/os/