Elementary OS rounds out its first decade

• eddy

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  A debian package installer for elementary OS

That means that I've been actively using it for about 8 years now! Back then it was the only Linux-based OS that was lightweight enough for my old Asus laptop not to overheat.

It's the little things that make me always back to it:

- If I've made a selection in terminal, Ctrl+C will copy it. If there's no selection, it will kill the process as usual.

- Simple math directly from the launcher without the need to open calculator. Just press meta key, type the calculation, see the result. I wish it did more than that, but I'm using a third-party launcher for that stuff (ulauncher.io).

- Fuzzy search in the app launcher. I'm quite annoyed that I have to type "fire" in the launcher in every other OS I've tried to start Firefox. In elementary OS, I can do "ffox", "ffx", or anything resembling what I'm looking for, and Firefox will pop up.

Overall the system just gets out of my way and lets me launch apps quickly and navigate between them with breeze, which is precisely what I'm looking for in an OS. There's also a couple of third-party apps specifically designed for it that I absolutely love, most notably Planner (https://planner-todo.web.app/) and Eddy (https://github.com/donadigo/eddy).

Congrats on the awesome decade team! I hope for many more successful ones and can't wait for the v6 to be ready for my laptop!

• files

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• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• gala

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  Gala Window Manager for elementary OS and Pantheon

  

• terminal

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  Terminal emulator designed for elementary OS (by elementary)

  

• photos

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  Photo viewer and organizer designed for elementary OS (by elementary)

  

• calendar

  2 130 8.4 Vala

  Desktop calendar app designed for elementary OS (by elementary)

  

• mail

  9 193 9.1 Vala

  Mail app designed for elementary OS (by elementary)

  

• WorkOS

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  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• AppImageKit

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  Package desktop applications as AppImages that run on common Linux-based operating systems, such as RHEL, CentOS, openSUSE, SLED, Ubuntu, Fedora, debian and derivatives. Join #AppImage on irc.libera.chat

  

Are you mixing up Flatpak and Snap? Ubuntu supports snap by default and it’s much more feature rich [1].

I found the ability to install JetBrains products through Snap particularly delightful (they don’t support flatpak).

[1]: https://github.com/AppImage/AppImageKit/wiki/Similar-project...

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