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Introducing The Elementary OS 5 Linux Community Challenge

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Wednesday 16th of January 2019 06:57:24 AM Filed under
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The basic premise of the elementary OS Challenge is simple: ditch Windows, macOS or your current Linux OS of choice and exclusively use elementary OS 5 Juno as your daily driver for two weeks. Explore the curated AppCenter and the bundled software to get all of your working and playing done. For email, for music, for coding, for gaming, for whatever.

We’ll be taking this journey together, which hopefully means a two-way conversation to discuss the successes, discoveries, questions and potential stumbling blocks we encounter along the way.

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Day one

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Thursday 17th of January 2019 06:30:26 AM.
  • Elementary OS Challenge Day 1: Filling In The Audio App Gap

    So, elementary OS 5 ships with a perfectly serviceable Music app visually reminiscent of a stripped-down iTunes, but there are better alternatives inside the AppCenter.

    Melody by Artem Anufrij ($3 or pay what you want) doesn't do everything under the sun, but what it does do works fast and works well.

    Melody feels modern without feeling bloated, and also offers a sorting option that I appreciate: the ability to view your music library by artist, and then chronologically by album. It also remembers the position of your currently playing track if you close and reopen the software.

Elementary OS Challenge Day 2

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Sunday 20th of January 2019 04:13:15 AM.
  • Elementary OS Challenge Day 2: We Need To Talk About Minimizing Windows

    Several years ago elementary OS founder Daniel Foré visited his grandparents in California, and noticed a habit that probably inspired this radical way of viewing windows and workflows. His grandfather, who had a Windows XP computer hooked up to their TV, would open a browser, minimize it when he was finished, and then open a new instance of the browser by double clicking on the desktop icon.

    "He had upwards of 12 separate web browser windows open and had no idea," Foré writes. "For most of us, it can be fairly obvious when multiple windows are open and sucking up system resources, but this information was lost on a user who only understood that clicking the '-' made the app go away and double clicking the app icon on the desktop is what made the app show up again."

    Foré says that ultimately, the minimize button is just another way of making users do manual memory management. He also says that hey, this concept isn't much different than what Android and iOS have been doing for years.

Day 3

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Monday 21st of January 2019 08:51:12 PM.
  • Elementary OS Challenge Day 3: Rejecting The Dark Side

    Elementary OS is a streamlined Linux desktop operating system that enforces minimalism without sacrificing style. Dark mode or not, it looks sharp and makes a great first impression. But the developers made a deliberate choice not to provide a dark mode option in elementary OS 5 Juno. That's a feature many other distributions as well as macOS and Windows 10 offer (although the latter does it poorly).

    Like minimizing windows, dark mode vs light mode makes for a heated debate. Light mode is best for readability, but dark mode is ideal for preventing eye strain.

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