A lot of people here fervently complaining about eOS again.
The most important thing is that there's finally a linux distro with a team behind it that really cares about design. I think it's a huge step forward, and when eOS gains in popularity, I hope other teams follow in their footsteps.
No, distros like Linux Mint aren't the right way forward. Stripping off everything until what you have left is a taskbar isn't exactly my idea of good design.
Completely agree. Their focus on design as all of how-it-looks, how-it-works, and performance-is-a-feature is very promising for a Linux Desktop, as are the hard work and sacrifices they're willing to go to get that - rewriting everything in Vala and GTK3 namely.
Their app-data-sharing component, Contractor, is also interesting. I've had at least one idea I wanted to try in the past but couldn't figure out how to implement it b/c apps are not aware of other running apps. I wonder if Contractor will make that possible.
These guys have created a really strong base to build upon, and appear to be innovative problem solvers. They're also tuned into the problems of power users, referencing the whole Gnome2/3 brouhaha. Really looking forward to seeing how this develops, and to it getting to a point I can completely replace Ubuntu desktop with it.
I'm glad to see that the top comment is a positive one. I haven't personally used eOS, but I'm also glad to see they are focused on usability and design. I switched from a decade of Linux to OSX a few years ago and have been pretty happy with my choice - OSX is unix-y enough, and tends to just get out of the way when necessary (some of Apple's more recent Gatekeeper changes withstanding).
In the meantime, I'm disappointed that Hacker News commenters continue to bring out constant negativity against new projects. What happened to original HN ethos that celebrated people _doing things_? Seriously: if you feel like you have to complain about somebody's hard work, try being constructive and giving feedback, or not commenting and just doing it better instead.
They don't care about design. If they did they would have created something original. Or at least they would have more than one source of inspiration to pick from. If they wanted to take the whole shape of OSX applications, at least they should have picked a different color theme. Here they stole the functionalities, the shapes, the colors and the metal textures that Apple's designers chose. eOS is designed by Apple, there's no one who care about design in the eOS team, at least not for the apps shown in the video. They're receiving bad critics because thieves receive bad critics. Hopefully they'll learn and their next version will have its own identity.
Apple doesn't care about design. If they did they would have created something original. Here they stole their entire windowing interface from Xerox and their kernel from FreeBSD and Mach. OS X is designed by other people, Apple only cares about metallic textures. They're receiving bad critics because ... oh wait, they're not b/c Steve's said "great artists steal" and made it all ok.
The most important thing is that there's finally a linux distro with a team behind it that really cares about design. I think it's a huge step forward, and when eOS gains in popularity, I hope other teams follow in their footsteps.
No, distros like Linux Mint aren't the right way forward. Stripping off everything until what you have left is a taskbar isn't exactly my idea of good design.