Ubuntu Deepin Desktop Environment
I find it baffling that a website who's sole purpose is to present "the most beautiful desktop environment" would present low resolution, reduced color screenshots to back the claim.
examples: https://ubuntudde.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/ubuntudde-l... https://ubuntudde.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/ubuntudde-f...
There are better screenshots behind the "Digital Assets" nav link, but I wouldn't have found that, or thought to look there for screenshots if I wasn't concerned about replies to this comment proving me wrong.
My magicbook came with deepin linux installed, but unfortunately they're based off debian stable, which meant that most of the packages were severely outdated and unusable for me as a dev environment.
The deepin desktop environment itself was pretty, but janky. The settings thing (on the right side of the screen) is difficult and unintuitive to navigate, and scrolling was still buggy when I used it in December (it will randomly skip sections or just get stuck when you scroll). The other apps felt similarly unpolished, like they'd put all their energy into the look rather than the boring stability side of things. In a few years it might be a nice DE, but it has a long way to go.
I've tried all of the major desktops over the past year in anticipation of 20.04, but I think I'll be moving to KDE once it comes out. It seems to have the most seamless integration of them all, and still allows me to control things. I just hope the performance is good.
I do wonder if it’s legally acceptable to use the name “Ubuntu” as part of a different commercial product’s name - especially after acknowledging on the front page that the name “Ubuntu” has been trademarked by Canonical.
Certainly, section 4 of Canonical’s Intellectual Property Rights Policy [0] permits such use only if Canonical were to provide written permission to do so.
I presume they want to use the name until a take down notice arrives from Canonical and benefit from the brand till that time?
Give that Deepin are a company, I would expect their legal team to either prevent such misuse or to ensure that the written permission is stated on the front page.
[0] https://ubuntu.com/legal/intellectual-property-policy
Edit: changed “entity “ to “ product”
What's the point of creating a new "distro" that just has a different window manager/desktop environment? Like, what kind of person would spend time doing that? Maybe that's a little harsh, but these kinds of projects seem completely pointless. Changing your wm/de doesn't take more than a couple minutes (including the download time). It might actually be harmful, the world doesn't need more distros, derivative or otherwise.
Looks like a pretty average Gnome theme with very minor changes from the default. What's the point of creating an entire distro flavor?
I hate all these "most beatiful Linux desktop" things. They all suck. Let's look at this pic: https://ubuntudde.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/UbuntuDDE-D... It showcases the desktop of the "most beautiful desktop environment".
Either it does not come with a browser installed, or the browser is not added to that launch bar or they changed the browser icon but not the email client icon.
As the email client icon highlights, that icon theming does not make anything more beautiful because a lot of applications do not have an icon which would fit into the theme.
Network adapter selection, charging status and other things which most are not constantly interested in are in the middle of the most important UI element. Put those somewhere so that those are not constantly in my way.
Power button is also right there in the most important UI element. I don't know how others use their machines, but I'm not constantly pressing the power button of my computer. Put it somewhere where other unimportant things belong. And how does a power button, some number thingy and trash can belong to the same area?
Nothing makes sense. Default gnome and KDE are more beautiful and work better. Here's the default Ubuntu desktop https://149366088.v2.pressablecdn.com/wp-content/uploads/202... Browser icon looks like browser icon. Icons are beautiful as their original designer intended. System settings related things like network, battery and power thingies are moved away from the importan things.
Looks pretty, but being a bit out of the loop I'd really appreciate a quick "What's Deepin Desktop Environment?" and why I would want it on the landing page!
I've used elementary os [1] in the past. This initially looks similar, but less polished. I hadn't heard of dde [2] before. It'd be nice to explain it on this page or provide a link.
[1] https://elementary.io/ [2] https://www.deepin.org/en/dde/
Looks interesting, but couldn't this just sit on top of Ubuntu as a interchangeable desktop environment like KDE, Gnome, Unity etc..?
Why fork the entire OS? ...
>UbuntuDDE is a Remix flavor of Ubuntu system with Deepin Desktop Environment (DDE) . UbuntuDDE is a linux distribution based on Ubuntu with the most beautiful desktop environment.
So by imitating macOS look they got "the most beautiful desktop environment".
I don't get it. If I want macOS, I would run the real deal, either by buying a Mac or by doing a hackintosh install.
Earlier there were Linux distros trying to imitate Windows XP. That was bad, too.
I think time wasted and effort would be better spent on inventing something new or refining some ideas striving to do something better, trying to solve problems.
I don't get the problem this desktop environment solves. Are they catering to people who love Macs but don't want to use Macs? That's a rather tiny population.
Or maybe the problem they tried to solve was Linux having too few desktop environments.
- Install Arch/Debian - Install Deepin
You'll basically have the same thing.
Be free from GNU+Linux distro fragmentation
From wikipedia, >The development of deepin is led by China-based Wuhan Deepin Technology Co., Ltd. The company generates revenue through the sale of technical support and other services related to it.[12]
The distribution is widely praised for its aesthetics in various reviews, while also has been criticized for having used a statistical tracking service in its App Store, which was removed in July 2018.
For the most beautiful DE, it's so... meh. It's a shame. Does anyone here remember Beryl? Now that was mindblowing stuff, still can't wrap my head around the fact it's dead...
https://github.com/linuxdeepin/dde-file-manager/tree/develop...
Looking at the source code of one of the critical pieces of that distro, we can see that it has about 5 active devs (in the past 2 years). To me it looks like a strong project. Will be interesting to see where it is in 5 years. They need more presence on the various Linux news/discussion sites.
A few years ago I installed FreeBSD on my main machine, and actually used it for some time (6ish months?).
It was really nice that I could actually google things, and usually come to a mailing list or the FreeBSD manual for my version of the OS, and then actually be able to find what I was looking for and have it work (most of the time).
It's the opposite with Linux. Yeah, this is just another "hey lets copy osx and pretend we're actually doing something real" project, and more than likely, everything will work fine just like in the standard ubuntu, but it's still just another fragment in the already overcrowded and starting-to-stink-from-all-the-dead-projects ecosystem.
I get the freedom to do everything you want, fork this, change that, I get that 100%, but man it would be nice to have Linux be unified.
...can it do multiple DPIs on multiple displays?
This is not eye-candy it's minimum s I need to get work done!
This is as low as a bar I can imagine but last time I checked from the mainstream Linux DEs, only a version of KDE/Plasma (can't stand KDE, so was a no-go out of the bat) had this.
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Can't see any suggestion that this is officially sanctioned or supported by either trademark holder. Canonical defend the use of "Ubuntu". I would expect a name change fairly soon.
And using SourceForge in 2020 doesn't fill me with confidence.
Looks quite nice. I switched from ubuntu after getting a 15in macbook last summer, but will keep my eye on the final Deepin release.
Am I crazy or does this look a lot like KDE?
Linux GUIs have a problem understanding the difference between beauty as a visual attribute and beauty as a functional product. They never have one without the other.
No, Elementary and Poppin don't count. I wish they did.
Fair warning deepin is made by a Chinese company. I know you are going to say "open source duh" and then I'll say sure like that has always worked.
Linux is never beautiful IMO. There are so few packages out there that actually have good UI/UX design that you could put whatever DE you want on a distro and it will still be ugly.
Whenever I use Linux I pretty much always end up right back at running Openbox because it ends up being one less thing to get in the way.
