6 engineers on Hacker News describe using elementary OS first-hand: 2 endorse it, 1 regret it, 2 are mixed.
“I've been using Elementary OS since 0.3 as my main OS at work (Higher Education IT) and it's my favorite distro. The lack of Ayatana indicators is annoying”
mixed · production · xd1936 · 2021-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“It's nice to use, but the biggest issue is that there is no way to upgrade it to a newer distro version when it comes.”
mixed · personal · skbohra123 · 2019-12-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Elementary as my main OS for ~4 years now. No complaints. Everything runs smooth and nice.”
endorse · personal · 4 yr · sparkling · 2019-12-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I’ve been using Elementary for a year straight[1] and like it a lot, but I see it as Ubuntu with the “right” UX.”
endorse · personal · 1 yr · rcarmo · 2017-12-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Coming from Mac OS, or even Fedora, Elementary seems unpolished and unstable.”
regret · personal · INTPenis · 2016-11-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I haven't ever run into that in 8 years of running a various GNU/Linux distros (MeeGo, Elementary OS, Maemo, Sailfish OS, Debian)”
neutral · personal · 8 yr · jkepler · 2021-05-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?