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I very seldom post here anymore, but I've reached out to the Elementary OS team regarding this issue to no successful avail, so I thought I would crack the minds of some Ars members. Six months ago I ...

Everyone is a Linux user, but almost no one knows it. The operating system is a strange beast. You'd be hard pressed to come up with another tool so widely used, so widely deployed, and so absolutely ...

However, there are days when I miss the elegance and simplicity of the Elementary OS desktop distribution. Elementary OS is as elegant a desktop OS as you'll ever find. With the slightest inspiration ...

Need a "beginner" Linux distro? The super-simple elementary OS now features a more modern design, enhanced multitasking ...

Last month the elementary team released elementary OS “Loki” 0.4. Needless to say, I wasted no time downloading and installing that bad boy on one of my machines. Even though I tend to use openSUSE on ...

The basic premise of the elementary OS Challenge is simple: ditch Windows, macOS or your current Linux OS of choice and exclusively use elementary OS 5 Juno as your daily driver for two weeks. Explore ...

I've always had a soft spot in my heart for Elementary OS. It was one of the few distributions capable of pulling me away from Ubuntu. When I first discovered Elementary OS, I thought, "This is what a ...

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Elementary OS is an Ubuntu-based Linux distribution with an emphasis on speed, privacy, and ease-of-use. It also happens to have a user interface that’s reminiscent of macOS and a slightly ...