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Étoilé – desktop built on GNUStep

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250 points pabs3 | 1 comments | 04 Sep 25 02:55 UTC | HN request time: 0.216s | source
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alephnerd ◴[04 Sep 25 03:54 UTC] No.45123378[source]▶
It makes me glad to see Etoile is still around.

I played around with it in HS when it was in it's alpha stages because I wanted to find a Linux distro that had the same polish of MacOS X and on which I could dev Obj-C. It was a good attempt, but sadly I haven't seen any Linux skin or distro that has solved the UX polish issue.

Edit: never mind, Étoilé did die around the time I thought it did in the early 2010s.

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totallykvothe ◴[04 Sep 25 03:56 UTC] No.45123385[source]▶
What are your gripes with Elementary? I personally use KDE now, but I used to use Elementary a while ago, and it was very polished
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1. Shorel ◴[04 Sep 25 09:42 UTC] No.45125396[source]▶
I used it in an old EEE PC laptop because of its lower resource usage compared with Ubuntu.

Elementary is (or was at the time of testing) wasteful of screen real state, there are huge spacers on the toolbars and in a low resolution screen it's just ridiculous.

It could look good and also have sensible design. It only looked good and had IMHO bad design.