New Features For Mail, A More Personal Lock Screen, And System Settings Improvements
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Updates for July, 2023

This should be the last monthly update before OS 7.1 and it’s a good one! We have new releases of our office productivity apps, including several new features in Mail, a much more personal Login & Lock Screen experience with improved accessibility, and a couple of large redesigns in System Settings. Plus, for our developers we have a big new release of Code with tons of bug fixes. And don’t forget to read the Early Access Preview to find out what last minute features might make it into the next big OS release.

    • MatthewEnglish
      20·
      1 year ago

      For sure. I daily drove it for a long time many years ago when it was starting.

      I tried it again recently when I was looking for a Linux OS for my moms 2009 white MacBook, since the default DE wouldn’t be too hard for her to understand.

      I forgot how you legit can’t customize anything without external tools, PPAs and DEB support is disabled and requires a terminal command to enable, which is not user friendly at all for people new to Linux. Their App Store is also super buggy and the updates would make it crash every time I tried to run them, so again, had to resort to the terminal.

      Lastly, I was surprised at how poorly it ran. I know it has a Core 2 Duo and « only » 6 GB of RAM, but every other distro I tried (Solus, Mint Cinnamon, Fedora) ram perfectly fine.

      It’s just sad because it used to be a nice distro IMO. Now I can’t see myself recommending it.

      /rant over, sorry

      • smeeps@feddit.uk
        2·
        1 year ago

        It just seems to be based on an old version of Ubuntu too, half the features of my laptop don’t work without serious tweaks while fedora just works

      • Rossel@sh.itjust.works
        141·
        1 year ago

        Bad management mainly. The cofounders fought and one basically expelled the other. And then there’s the bad choices like removing .deb support by default. Also, it’s a bit buggy nowadays.

    • JacketedSpud@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      It’s the icons that look ugly IMO. If they used monochrome icons in the header bars then I think it’d be the best looking Linux desktop.