Hello everybody and welcome back to another video now today's video is going to be another operating system related video as I know
That a lot of you guys really like these videos and always want to see more of them so today
We're gonna be focusing on an operating system called elementary OS
Which claims to be a fast and open replacement.
for Windows and Mac OS now that might sound familiar to some of you guys who watched my Deepin OS video
And if you have not seen that video
I'll have a card to the top right of your screen if you want to go check it out and
You know see that video for yourself, but in that video
I kind of said the same thing about Deepin OS and a lot of other people did too
They kind of said that that operating system was kind of trying to be a free and open-source alternative
To Windows and Mac OS it was just a very sleek a very lightweight operating system
that was super easy to learn and super easy to use and
Elementary OS kind of has that same feel to it right here. You can see that
we've got a Mac OS style dock down here something like a menu bar up here and
Just overall a very sleek a very
Easy to use looking interface that I'm sure a lot of people really like so this is their website right here
it can be found at elementary.io if you want to check this site out for yourself
Also have the link down in the video description and on their website
They have this image right here, and they also have the download link right down here
It is a pay what you want
type of deal
So it is free software if you go into this custom box and enter $0
The purchase as you can see will change to download so it is free software
But if you really like it and you really think that like hey, I would pay $25 for this
They kind of have that option and setup to where
If you really want to support the people that made this you can do that right here, but it is free software
So you don't have to pay to use it the current version is 0.4.1 Loki. It is 1.5 GB in size.
So that is how big that the CD ISO image is when you download it if we go ahead and scroll down here
You'll see they do advertise some very nice things that a few press people have said about them, so we've got Wired
we've got Mac Life and Life Hacker right here that have all said pretty positive things about it wired over here said that?
Elementary OS is different a beautiful and powerful operating system that will run well even on old PCs
So I don't know I might be trying that out in a later video
Maybe seeing if we can do this on an on like a super old computer
With like low you know specs and just kind of seeing how it handles it
But in this video is you know just gonna be like an overview and a demonstration of it in a virtual machine
If we go ahead and scroll down even more
they do talk about the App Store that they have they do have this open source app store with a lot of indie and
Just open source software
The design of it in this image does look to me like the Mac OS App Store
So I can definitely tell they're kind of going for that look and they do actually have the same model where you can support
Indeed indie developers directly through pay what you want purchases.
So it sounds like they do have it like this same thing right here
Set up in all of the apps in the App Store, so that'll be very interesting to see how that works
it does advertise apps you need without one is you don't so it kind of saying like they don't add a lot of bloatware and
Junk that you're never gonna use in the operating system
They only have stuff that they think you're going to use so a lot of the essential
Applications are in here it does talk about there's three
There's three ways to explore it sort of three ways to use it, so there's this grid view
There's a categories view right here
And there's a search view where you can search for your applications and down here. They do have three pretty nice claims
It's open source
There's no ads and no spying and it's safe and secure so
For people that are really you know concerned about their privacy
And they want a very secure operating system
From what these people are saying this does
Look like it's a very safe and a very secure operating system if we're just taking their word for it here again
There's a download link right here
And I wanted to briefly touch on a site called distrowatch.com if you haven't heard of this
DistroWatch is a pretty big site that mainly talks about you know it's all about Linux and all about
Open source operating systems. I think it mainly has a focus on you know Linux operating systems and
they have this thing called the page hit ranking which is basically a
List of the most popular are systems that are being
Accessed on their on their website, so like they have pages for each of these different operating systems
And they just kind of take the ones that are being hit on the most pretty much
To indicate that there was a high interest in that operating system
So they'll see that number one here in the last 12 months is Mint so
Linux Mint
And you'll see that elementary is number eight so in the past year
Elementary has ranked number eight in this page
Hit ranking thing from DistroWatch
So that will kind of give you a you know clue about how popular that this is it's obviously not as popular or something like
Ubuntu or Mint but it is still somewhat popular in the Linux community
this is also based off of Ubuntu so for those of you who have used Ubuntu there might be some visual elements and
Designs that you're very familiar with the installer for one thing is very similar looking to the Ubuntu installer
So I'm not really going to be showing that in this video. We're just going to jump right into
the OS
Let's just go ahead and you know pretty much do that right now that is all I have to say for the website
I will have this link down below once again. Let's just move on with the demonstration so here
We are booting into elementary OS right here
I'm going to have to change the resolution, but you can see that the dock popped up right like that did that very nice effect
I'm not sure if they're calling this like the menu bar, but I'm just gonna probably say that a few times throughout this video
But let's just go ahead and just change the resolution so I assume this is gonna be the settings right down here
So we'll go ahead and open that up and right off the bat really does look like
The Mac OS system preferences, so there's three updates available
We'll go ahead and check that in a minute, but yeah, this does look like the Mac OS system preferences
so I'm gonna kind of be interested to see how they
Use the Mac OS sort of visual style you know throughout this says there does definitely seem to be a focus on that
Obviously you know this dock down here is it's obviously not exclusive to Mac OS
But I can kind of see that they're going for that look
And there's probably gonna be some things like the Windows has in here as well as they do you know boldi State on their website?
It's a open
Alternative to Windows and Mac OS where's obviously gonna be some things that have to make the windows user as comfortable as well
Also, you will notice that
Like the close button and all that are on the left side of the screen so that's definitely something
That Mac OS does is well
Okay
So I had to quickly install VMware tools because there was no 1920 by 1080 option in the system settings for whatever reason
But I've had that happen before just sometimes happens with the virtualization
But here we are so this is the desktop once again and for elementary OS, and we were in the system settings program here
Which I mentioned does look a little bit like these System Preferences in OS X
So right down here in the dock we do have a few different applications. We have
Something called the multitasking view and this opens up a desktop choose your type thing
And it shows you what windows you have on each desktop, so if you want to like make a new desktop
You can just click this here, and then here you are on like a new desktop so those of you who use
The multiple desktop feature which is in a lot of different operating system
It's in you know Mac OS Windows a lot of linux distro, so if you use that that is here
So like if we wanted to close out of say system settings from here
We can do that and make it super easy
We also have the Epiphany web browser right here, which if we go ahead and open it up
I can show you what this is about
I don't know if this is developed by the people who made elementary OS where this is just kind of a
Open source of web browser
It's not opening here for some reason
Okay, here it is so I'm gonna go ahead just make it a little bit larger here
like so and
You can see that like there's no a menu bar type thing that opens up like tor it's like file help you in that sort
Of thing it's all of that is just gone
There's only this Settings thing over here that I think contains most of those options
So they've definitely tried to eliminate a lot of the things that could confuse
Novice computer user, which is you know good well go ahead and click on about and see
What this is okay? So it looks like it's just okay?
So it's calling itself Web 3.18.11 there's simple clean beautiful view of the web. It's powered by the WebKit
And this is their website right here, so this is actually just a regular Gnome browser
It looks like so I don't know why it's I guess they're just
Rebranding it as Epiphany, and maybe they've added like a new skin on top of it. I don't know but yeah, so that is
That is pretty cool, so we're go ahead and just close out of this
So the browser works, you know as you would expect it to we'll go ahead and load up my YouTube channel right here
And I mean it's I mean what can I say it's just like a basic web browser does what you would expect it to do
There is no
Go ahead and pause before my video is there.
There there doesn't seem to be and this is actually very interesting there doesn't seem to be like a closed
Maximize and minimize button on any of these or windows there's just a close button over here at the top left and at the top
Right there is this fullscreen one one if you know or if you click on that it opens it up in fullscreen
You can still access your dock down here, but it doesn't seem like there is a way to
or like there was those three dedicated buttons if you like want to minimize or
to restore the window to where it's not fullscreen you just have to
You know do that when you're in full-screen mode pretty much. You can obviously resize the window as you would normally
Do there is this plus button right here? I do believe that is for making a new tab yes, so
You can obviously have multiple tabs, so that is nice. Let's see if we can hit Win+Q
Or Alt+Q. So there's no okay Ctrl+Q
We'll go ahead and close the window, so there is a keyboard shortcut like in Mac. OS. There is Cmd+Q
And it go ahead and or in it goes heads and and closes out the window
So Ctrl+Q and Elementary OS does that as well.
We do have a mail program right here
Which looks you know go ahead, and I'm not really really gonna set this up
But I assume it's you know you're pretty standard looking mail program
So there's also a calendar a music player and a video player as well
So some pretty standard application is that you would expect in things like Windows and Mac OS
That is in here as well. There's also a photo viewer as well
Something I thought to be very interesting. There is no shortcut to the file browser
in
This dock right here by default you have to actually go to applications up here
Which is a button by the way you have to go up here and just search for files, and it will open up
So this is the file browser that they're using it honestly like I've mentioned before looks
Somewhat similar to Mac OS you've got this Mac OS a folder style
Some of these icons just kind of remind me personally of Mac OS
You've got like your home folder shortcut a recent tab for all of your recent documents
You've got one for your documents music pictures videos downloads trash
You've got a device's thing where it will show you like your hard drive
I will show you you can see I have VMware tools in the CD drive
And you have a network section right here, so
What I'm gonna
Go ahead And do is take a look at the app store because I'm very interested in seeing what that's about so the app store is right
Here it's called the App Center
If we go ahead and open it up well go ahead and make this full screen right here so right off the bat
It comes up with a category view so it says App Center or an open, pay what you want app store.
So it does load in you can see it
Just loaded in some of these applications that are trending and some that are recently updated, and we've got these categories down here
So we've got accessories audio development education
Among other thing you know there's just a lot of different categories in here
so if we wanted to download an Internet application we can go ahead and hear it the Internet and
Here are all of your internet programs, so you
Can see that some of these are paid so there are paid applications in here.
So let's go into bookmark manager here, so
Can we actually enter $0?
Okay, so that's interesting so
This was advertised as $1.00, but if you go in here and enter $0 it just turns to free so I assumed that
every developer because you can see this one right here is just free so I
Assume that every developer has to enable that in their application so like they have to UM
you know
Want to have like the pay what you want
Thing going on so some apps are just free and you can't pay for them. Even if you to it
You know doesn't seem like there's any arrow here to indicate that you can pay for it if you want to
But in these ones that are advertised as one dollar
you can just go in here and change it to free or you can make it a ten dollar application if you really think it's
worth ten dollars
It's obviously gonna ask you for like your credit card information there, so that is very unique. I've not really seen that before
Personally in an app store. I've only seen it to where
It's a free app or it's a paid app, and you only have you know those two different things
There's no like oh well
It's free
But it's advertised as a dollar and you could pay a dollar or more for it if you think it's worth that
so that is very nice very good for you know developers who want to make a little bit of money off their applications and
Want to offer people that want to support them the ability to support them see that we have the Chromium browser in here as well
So we've got you know basically the open source project behind Google Chrome
It's called chromium so we have that in here so we can just go ahead and you know download this
I'll put in my super secure password here, and yeah
We can get you know Chrome or the Chromium project on here, so that is pretty cool
so yeah, that is a
Brief look at the App Store. We also have an updates tab up here
So this will kind of show you where you manage all of your different updates
So these are the updates that are available these are the drivers that are available for you to download
And these are the updated applications that have been recently updated so and you'll see that the Chromium browser has just finished installing
Here will go ahead, and you know
unmaximize that
And I'll go ahead and take a look at Chromium
Before we do that though one of the things that I'm kind of finding here is
Something that I think could be kind of confusing for novice users is this
Interface up here where this just looks like some text right that says applications this just looks like some text
That says you know like the current date and time
But these are actually both
Buttons that you can interact with so for the date here if you click on this it opens up a calendar
and for the applications thing if you click on this it opens up the
Applications view which is pretty much necessary to take a look at your applications
So I could see like a novice user that has never used something like this before it could be
Somewhat confused as you know to thinking this is just some text and not an actual button
It's it's not really labeled as that
But I mean once you know that it is button you know it's like not gonna
Be that confusing at all so just something that I think could be
somewhat confusing for like a novice user, but I'll go ahead and just click on the applications thing and we're gonna open up chromium and
Yeah, so here, we are
You see there is this like tab up here or not tab, but this like layer
I guess of like a window thing that it adds
So like it doesn't add the closed and maximize buttons to the chrome interface
It just adds this thing up here that has the closed and maximize button so I mean this is you know regular Google Chromium
It's it's not full Google Chrome. It's the open source project which is called Chromium so
You can still sign into it and everything, but if we go to about
Yeah, so this is this is it so if you want to get Google Chromium on here you you can
That is that is very neat also up here
We do have your sort of like your control center type things, so we've got your volume controls right here
We've also got a built-in music
Thing here where you can play, and you know skip the track from your music. We also have a shortcut to the sound settings
Right here, we have your network settings so right now. I'm just wired. I'm not wireless
I assume if I was wireless it would show all those wireless networks in here
And there is a shortcut to network settings as well. There's also a a
Notification panel right here you can turn on do not disturb if you want to or you won't get any notifications at all
We also have where it would normally show like if you had like five different notifications that come up
It would show them here
So you could view those there's also a power setting up here where you can go ahead and switch to a different account
You could lock your computer to log out of it
Or suspend or shutdown so over all Elementary OS definitely seems to be a very light a very
Easy to use easy to learn to use operating system
It's very lightweight as I said, I mean this thing when I downloaded
It was 1.5 gigabytes in size so that could easily fit on like a flash drive or a DVD
to install on as Wired said pretty much anything so I
Might be doing like a future video where I try to install this on some older hardware
Be sure to let me know if you guys want to see that
But that is pretty much going to wrap it up for
This little overview and demonstration
Of Elementary OS so if you guys enjoyed this video if you want to see some more videos like this definitely be sure to give this
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