This is a bit of a response to my previous post about problems with Elementary OS - the new and highly anticipated Linux distribution.
I was determined to get it installed on a machine and see what all the fuss was about. So I grabbed an old laptop that I have lying around for just that purpose (installing and testing Linux installations - yes, I'm weird like that) and gave it another shot. Although there are some tweaking applications that one can add to the basic Elementary OS install, I suspected that the tweaking application was the issue, so I demurred from adding it - I'd just live with the standard install for a while.
That appeared to do the trick, and I was rewarded with a successful and so far stable installation of Elementary OS.
First impressions... its FAST! I am using a relatively slow 1.6 GHz dual core business laptop, and it whizzes right along.
Its also very pretty. I hear that Linux users have said it is a MAC clone, and MAC users have said its too Linux-y, so I guess the designers made the right decision.
It's a distribution with its own idea of how a windowing operating system should work. Either you buy into them and go with the flow, or you try to fight them and are probably miserable and should probably just go and install Linux MINT15 and be happy.
Me? I haven't decided yet. I'll live with it for a while and get back with a quick review.
Thanks!
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