01-30-2015, 04:56 PM
Fully agree with you.
The machines and software was developed for business but the market has changed and for most non business casual users a tablet running a browser does all they want, I think using a browser for the desktop was the right way for these folk.
Other folk devs, video/audio producers etc need a desktop.
I've been following Ikey Doherty https://evolve-os.com/ check the google+ link at the bottom
He developed the original Mint LMDE but disagreed with update packs so he went off and developed SolusOS based on Debian stable but with up to date kernels and apps.
He developed an alpha for the next stable release but decided the big time consuming problem with maintaining a repo was the .deb package management so he decided to fork the PiSi packet manager from Pardus.
He brought out some alpha's but then sadly closed down SolusOS. :'(
He'd decided to create a new linux from scratch using the latest Gnome with his PiSI package manager and a new desktop environment he's creating called Budgie.
He just released a beta but it's very limited at the moment.
Another one that might interest you is Papyros http://www.papyros.io/
The machines and software was developed for business but the market has changed and for most non business casual users a tablet running a browser does all they want, I think using a browser for the desktop was the right way for these folk.
Other folk devs, video/audio producers etc need a desktop.
I've been following Ikey Doherty https://evolve-os.com/ check the google+ link at the bottom
He developed the original Mint LMDE but disagreed with update packs so he went off and developed SolusOS based on Debian stable but with up to date kernels and apps.
He developed an alpha for the next stable release but decided the big time consuming problem with maintaining a repo was the .deb package management so he decided to fork the PiSi packet manager from Pardus.
He brought out some alpha's but then sadly closed down SolusOS. :'(
He'd decided to create a new linux from scratch using the latest Gnome with his PiSI package manager and a new desktop environment he's creating called Budgie.
He just released a beta but it's very limited at the moment.
Another one that might interest you is Papyros http://www.papyros.io/
Quote:Papyros is modern operating system based on Arch Linux and conforming to Google's Material Design guidelines.