I once upon a time suggested installing dual boot for a family member's pc with elementary just for her to try linux out. Every so often she uses it when windows has issues (more often than not) and ever since that, when I got a new laptop I tried using it over gentoo which is my usual choice (I have other issues with gentoo over the past few years but that's an aside).
Elementary isn't perfect, it has its hang-ups like anything else but it's pretty good, stable, and it's generally a pleasant experience. I can't really decide if elementary is better than gnome or not, I think I prefer gnome's activities view to the macos inspired dock+applications shtick but the design elsewhere feels a little bit more my taste than gnome. Also, while I don't use the curated apps that much, greatly prefer firefox to epiphany and the email app has issues with protonmail the ones I use are aesthetically pleasing.
All in all, I'm still waiting on the next update! But kudos to the team for a good 10 year run and here's to the next 10.
> Elementary isn't perfect, it has its hang-ups like anything else but it's pretty good, stable, and it's generally a pleasant experience.
I think they have one of the nicest Linux UIs out there; they certainly put a lot of thought into it and I love the aesthetics. But I must admit that both times that I tried out elementary, I switched back to Ubuntu after a few months because I found it annoyingly buggy.
Elementary isn't perfect, it has its hang-ups like anything else but it's pretty good, stable, and it's generally a pleasant experience. I can't really decide if elementary is better than gnome or not, I think I prefer gnome's activities view to the macos inspired dock+applications shtick but the design elsewhere feels a little bit more my taste than gnome. Also, while I don't use the curated apps that much, greatly prefer firefox to epiphany and the email app has issues with protonmail the ones I use are aesthetically pleasing.
All in all, I'm still waiting on the next update! But kudos to the team for a good 10 year run and here's to the next 10.