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I used it for a while (Freya I think?) -- I liked it, but it was (is?) essentially an Ubuntu re-skin, so I just went back to Ubuntu. I also had some suspend issues with respect to waking and screen tearing, which didn't help.
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dotPy57687yIts now at 0.41 Loki and some of those issues has been taken care of, honestly I love it because of the design.
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@abhishtagatya to be honest, I always felt that elementary was trying too hard to look good, and not hard enough to be a rock-solid platform (despite inhering Ubuntu LTS). If my elderly relative needed an OS, I'd give her elementary, the same way I'd give her a MacBook or an iPad, because it's simple and looks good. Can't see it holding up for devs tho.
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I tried it on an old, slow netbook. We're talking a few years back though. Never updated because it required a reinstall :(
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dotPy57687y@tylerjackoliver well I get your point and I have to disagree a bit. Although it is not as solid of an OS but it just works and what I really love about an OS is that the overall user experience and for me elementary os delivers
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Um, I installed it many months back as a fallback OS or in case I have to handover my laptop to someone whom I don't want to have my data screwed up. Fortunately, I never got the chance to use it, I never let others use my laptop. Although, elementary is a fine disto tho
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Dacexi119967yI used it for a while (4 months) but had some issues screen tearing so I switched to KDE Neon
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I use it! It's updating right now. But it isn't my main OS. I use a Mac and keep elementary in a USB drive.
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