I'm very excited. I have been using elementary for almost 2 years now. I just can't wait until they complete their new installer. Currently you can only do fresh installs, but at some point their installer should drop (although no idea if they'll add that to current release or if it'll be a next edition feature).

I also cannot wait until the hopeful switch to Wayland so we can have multiple DPI displays running together.

Anyway, they at least work really hard to make a good HiDPI experience.

Elementary always looked nice but I moved on because I needed modern libraries.

I have been able to work out using all the modern libraries I like, latest kernel and others, without having to give up on EOS.

It of course means having to know how to install them and deal with any issues, but it's not been particularly hard.

I have no issue with Elementary OS, but whoever wants to try EOS should try Arco Linux as well (and I have to say that I'm not using Arco Linux). Arco Linux is a rolling distro based on Arch Linux, uses Arch Linux repositories and AUR (not like Manjaro using its own repositories).

It sure looks like 2018/2019 is going to finally be the Year of the Linux Desktop.

Is it possible to change the layout of window controls without nasty hacks? I'd like to have the min, max, close buttons on the right side. Looks really nice, if the layout is optional, definitely going to try it on my laptop

There is a very simple app for that called <something> tweak.

Yes there is, the last time I tried it, it only worked on Firefox window, and only with min, close buttons.

This looks amazing. I might have to check it out again some time.

The people behind it could have saved about, oh, a decade's work if they knew about GNUstep before they began.

But no. Instead, they invented yet another wheel...

Nice, a reskinned Ubuntu distro.

I haven't installed it yet but I believe that it's more than just a reskin.

There's a custom set of desktop apps built using a their own language, Vala.

They also have a pay what you want app store to support and all apps there are FOSS.

https://developer.elementary.io/

They didn't create Vala, rather they adopted it because it's modern syntax makes it easier to write gtk+ based applications than doing it in C.

Aha thanks, that's interesting. I guess that leaves their tuning and custom apps in there then.