The latest release of the Linux distro now called “Depth OS” deserves serious consideration. It is fast, reliable and innovative, with an impressive homegrown desktop design dubbed “Deepin Desktop Environment.” Depth OS has a bit of an identity problem. It’s not well known outside Asia and Europe, but that’s not the major cause of confusion. The problem is that the open source community that developed the distro seems to have a difficult time deciding what to call it.
It is now 3 years later and Deepin is even better. It is a very impressive distro. It is beautiful, fast and complete. A real joy. Thumbs up to developers.
Started downloading on ScorgeForge's site and it was going to take over 4 hours. Cancelled and went to Deepin's site and clicked on their icon to download, and it only took 33 minutes. Just my experience, but it differed from the author's experience so I thought I'd share. Good day!
I'm a dedicated Ubuntu user - Unity desktop (yes, one of those). I've been a Linux user for 14 years, about half of that on Ubuntu.
I download and try out (in virtualbox) a variety of distros and I have to say I'm kinda blown away by Deepin, for a number of reasons.
Firstly it has to be the easiest installation ever, for any distro. I can't imagine it could ever get to be simpler. There was virtually nothing for me to do but click a couple of buttons and key in my name and password.
It automatically found my location - OK, big deal - but no other distro has EVER done that.
It's the first distro that automatically installed with all the guest additions already in place on virtualbox.
The interface is brilliant, dead simple, fast and yet elegant.
I love their app store design, probably the best I've ever seen.
This is a distro I could recommend to anyone. Brilliantly intuitive, probably the lowest learning curve of any OS, a nice suite of apps and lots more in the store.
Just a note. You can add items to the dock by simply opening a program from the launcher. Then while the icon is in the dock, right click it and choose "keep in dock" . To remove an item, right click the icon in the dock and uncheck "keep in dock". Super simple.
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Deepin Takes Linux to New Depths
Posted by: Jack M. Germain January 18, 2016 03:33 PMThe latest release of the Linux distro now called “Depth OS” deserves serious consideration. It is fast, reliable and innovative, with an impressive homegrown desktop design dubbed “Deepin Desktop Environment.” Depth OS has a bit of an identity problem. It’s not well known outside Asia and Europe, but that’s not the major cause of confusion. The problem is that the open source community that developed the distro seems to have a difficult time deciding what to call it.
I download and try out (in virtualbox) a variety of distros and I have to say I'm kinda blown away by Deepin, for a number of reasons.
Firstly it has to be the easiest installation ever, for any distro. I can't imagine it could ever get to be simpler. There was virtually nothing for me to do but click a couple of buttons and key in my name and password.
It automatically found my location - OK, big deal - but no other distro has EVER done that.
It's the first distro that automatically installed with all the guest additions already in place on virtualbox.
The interface is brilliant, dead simple, fast and yet elegant.
I love their app store design, probably the best I've ever seen.
This is a distro I could recommend to anyone. Brilliantly intuitive, probably the lowest learning curve of any OS, a nice suite of apps and lots more in the store.
Amazing job.