Comments on: Deepin OS 20 – Innovation is Ongoing

By: Bëréndír

Bëréndír — Fri, 04 Dec 2020 06:39:09 +0000

If you own macbook, do not install deepin, because the touchpad is somehow undetectable and un-setting-able. You need mouse to use the cursor.

By: Tokek Salto

Tokek Salto — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 02:31:28 +0000

My keyboard doesnt work on kernel 4.11 🙁 . im just upgrade to kernel 4.14 but im got stuck when shutdown.
please help!

By: Petros Orea

Petros Orea — Sun, 26 Aug 2018 15:38:33 +0000

Looks very nice and modern, in my opinion user friendly, but on my older laptop does not run so fast as it could.

I think it is very good choice for desktop PC with better hardware,

and for linux newbies , and people who want distro which is ready to use.

Deepin store is extremely slow right now, actualy it was imposible to dowload any software

… they have to fix it 🙂

By: michael biller

michael biller — Sun, 26 Aug 2018 03:45:37 +0000

Fantastic article! You already know that I was bit by the Deepin bug some time ago. The category view was returned as promised in an email from the development team. This version is very fast. I noticed the difference right away when it rebooted after updating.

The Deepin Store is even better and now CNZZ free! They have also updated most of the software to the newest versions. Memory use is close to half what 15.6 used.

KDE Neon is also using far less memory now, as well. I still run Neon in a dual-boot setup and it seems like I am watching to heavyweights slug it out. KDE Neon and Deepin 15.7 keep coming out with all these great improvements and some pretty awesome eye-candy to go along with it.

Really like Mint Cinnamon ‘Tara”, too. However is it really necessary for Timeshift to use up that much hard disk space with snapshots? I like that I can restore my system but one, maybe two restore points are all that i have ever needed. Like one after a fresh install with all updates and essential software installed. then another, more recent snapshot prior to new software installs, in case of system breakage.

I have never had a breakage in Deepin. I mean, never. I am running the same edition I first installed when it was 15.4. It has been updated and that is it. Neon has been pretty solid too, but I have had to reinstall a couple times. The breakage was probably my fault. I can’t quit tinkering with the possibilities Plasma offers. With Deepin or Mint, I can get stuff done. With Plasma, I just play but I have learned alot about the ins and outs of Linux on it and I know just about every setting Plasma has, hidden or not.

I own several laptops so I have the luxury of getting dual-boot my favorite distros as well as distro-hop. Martins, as always another great article. Perhaps you could shed some light on the application Shadowsocks-Qt5? From what I can gather, it is not a VPN but has VPN-like capabilities. It sounds very interesting and possibly useful. Thanks again for your imfomative articles.

By: Varg i Veum

Varg i Veum — Sat, 25 Aug 2018 17:34:49 +0000

I am a bit seduced by the snappiness of Deepin. Installation was a breeze. Its really fast, except when downloading updates and the distro itself :/ But it wont play nice with my setup. I cant change to the Nvidia closed graphics driver so it is a bit sluggish dragging windows and scrolling web pages. It just says “download failed” and “sorry, cant switch” – thats it. Not many seems to have this problem (actually I havent seen anyone through my searches 😮 )
So I cant enable any effects. I also noticed that it is a bit over simplified, especially when it comes to using a VPN that uses “TUN”, there is no option in the settings to enable that wich is required for my VPN provider when using Linux (PrivateVPN). I cant find a way to do more advanced settings. Just the ones in the sidebar “control center”
The software center has quite outdated versions and for some software I have to use synaptic coz they’re not in the “store” There are some rough edges still, for example you cant have the terminal the size you want, only small, normal or big.
So I’ ll stick to Linux Mint for now, it just works, and wait for Deepin to mature a bit, I quite like it anyway but not for my daily distro yet. It is a bit exciting that it is based on Debian and a roiling release.

By: ud6

ud6 — Sat, 25 Aug 2018 10:50:15 +0000

Recent Linux Mint works perfectly for me now. I’ve been reading about deepin with enthusiasm, but thinking, is it worth swapping to a distro I don’t know because it is prettier. Mate desktop seems fast and useable, and not seen any good comparisons (I guess the users will either come from Ubuntu/mint or from Microsoft). Mint has such a market share, I wonder whether deepin will get the popularity it (maybe) deserves?