Tony's ramblings on Open Source Software, Life and Photography
It's Elementary My Dear Watson  A friend of mine has switched to
Elementary OS and claims it's the best Linux desktop he's ever
used. Debian / Ubuntu based but with a lot more focus on the
user interface and making it both pretty and useful.
http://elementaryos.org/  Is it time for Canonical to lose the
Desktop Linux battle? Perhaps, as they seem to be diverging more
and more from what the average Linux user want's to see.
Unfortunately they seem to have missed that no matter how much
you try to dumb down Linux for my Grandmother, 99% of Linux
users are still going to be geeks, or have an install that is
set up by a geek.  Maybe with Valve moving more towards Linux
with SteamOS and porting their game platforms to Linux, and with
Electronic Arts and Dice occasionally wanting to mention the
word Linux so they don't feel left out, you'll see more
mainstream adoption. I imagine we will go through something
similar to Android - different vendors may t