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#LINUX MINT VS ELEMENTARY OS MAC OS#
#LINUX MINT VS ELEMENTARY OS PC#
#LINUX MINT VS ELEMENTARY OS MAC#

(Left: DFM, right: Nemo, bottom: Pantheon Files)Īs a consequence to have own D.E., then, they have their own file managers too. Seeing Deepin, there is theme switcher available, but to compare with Mint's, it's still very limited. Within the OS itself, we do not see any theme switcher available.

#LINUX MINT VS ELEMENTARY OS MAC#

Seeing Elementary in particular, in my opinion I always think it's designed to be unchanged, so we rarely see custom themes for it, just like what we see with Mac OS. Speaking about themes, Mint is the most customizable, meaning, clear settings available to switch, add, remove, and mix desktop themes. To help you learn more about this, do not forget that in our GNU/Linux community, we also have KDE's HIG and GNOME's HIG. Concerning HIG, Deepin and Cinnamon do not have such thing. Another example, we apps on Elementary lack settings? Because, the HIG says so. For example, why, you say, Elementary does not have minimize buttons? The answer is, because, the HIG says so. This HIG is the cause of how Elementary behaves and every app developer designs their app to look like what we've seen.

#LINUX MINT VS ELEMENTARY OS MAC OS#

Speaking about design, the most distinct one here is Pantheon, as it has its own Human Interface Guidelines (HIG), just like Apple Mac OS with its HIG, a detailed documentation to construct on how apps and user interface should look like.

Elementary: top-down start menu, NO icons on desktop, top panel, top tray, Super key does not open start menu, NO right-click, NO theming, NOT movable panel.

Mint: normal start menu, icons on desktop, bottom panel, bottom tray, Super key OK, right-click OK, theming OK (on System Settings), movable panel.

Deepin: full-screen + normal start menu, icons on desktop, bottom dock, bottom tray, Super key OK, right-click OK, theming OK (on sidebar), movable panel.

(Left: DDE right: Cinnamon bottom: Pantheon) Let's say, for example, Kubuntu and Fedora, as most distro projects do This is what makes them unique compared to other desktop distros, Deepin has DDE, Mint has Cinnamon, and elementary has Pantheon. This is the most important thing to compare: each has its own D.E. And here, when I say Mint, I mean "Linux Mint Cinnamon Edition" of course. However, from above, it's clear that Deepin is the oldest one and Elementary is the youngest. Their versions I used to make this comparison are, respectively, 15.10 and 19 LTS and 5.0.

Elementary started 2011, so, 8 years ago.įor convenience sake, I use here all first-letter capitals of their names as it's hard to type names with first-letter lowercase.

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#LINUX MINT VS ELEMENTARY OS PC#

Finally, I wish you can empower your PC and laptop with one of them. You will also find which one still supports 32-bit PC nowadays, which one supports Flatpak by default, and more. (Deepin 15.10, Mint 19, and Elementary 5.0 showing their desktops with start menu opened)