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Elementary OS 0.3.2 "Freya" Released
linuxscreenshot writes: Just in time for the holidays, it's a new release of elementary OS. Freya 0.3.2 is a minor release, mostly focused around solving some issues folks have had with UEFI & SecureBoot, but we've also managed to sneak in some internationalization updates and a couple new features. Screenshots are available.
It's a fucking Linux distro, not a distinct operating system. Nothing wrong with posting articles about distro releases (Mint had one recently) but it's pretentious to think it's anything but a nicely-wrapped Linux distribution that I'd imagine still guilt-trips the user if they try to download an ISO without paying for it.
I guess some people care how it looks: I forgot that was something to consider when picking a desktop environment (I'm not going to call it an OS).
Wow, I guess I'm a bit disconnected to actually not realize people might care about the aesthetics: that should have been obvious. I'm one of those wacky people with javascript turned off who is used to broken web UI everywhere, and happy in a terminal. I Pick my theme based on how annoying it is in a dark room. For most stuff for me its first priority is transparency, then security / privacy, then reliability and functionally. Usability is a product of transparency and functionality, and it just needs to look good enough to be possible to use and easy to understand (transparency).
Indeed. This is a true contender, like Ubuntu in 2006. I dropped windows for Ubuntu then, but was sad to go back around 2010 when Ubuntu and Gnome went off the UI deep-end. This could bring Linux back to the nerd desktop.
It's also a sad state of affairs that this really cool attempt at a usable Linux gets downvoted on /. nowadays. How I long for the slashdot where four or five actual users and maybe a core developer would be here...