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.
(I also don’t see Linux developers flocking to it in droves, which is sad because it is a lot cleaner and easier to use than Gnome and KDE, IMHO, but then again Linux has always been more about diverging choices than unity—and I don’t mean the desktop environment here).
The only thing Elementary needs to do is allow for disabling all animations, to get rid of the perceived latency issues some folk complain about...
But I digress. It isn’t an OS, and you get all the Linux legacy underneath, so it’s understandable that Fuchsia is happening. Google seems to be attempting to lay a new foundation here, and I think it’s actually a good idea to do so, although the number of third-party packages and run times they’re bringing in makes it hard to peg it as “legacy-free”.
Nothing is legacy free, at least not yet, we haven't figured that out yet. Everything you touch is future legacy. It is hubris to think one has solved this, or made something so good it will last for so long. The only legacy free thing is a void, but even it will be filled by an inferior solution in the future.
1. A C720 Chromebook and an i7 desktop that is also a KVM host.
2. No. There isn’t anything I’d consider worth paying for in the store right now.
3 & 4. I work on Azure solutions, so these are my Linux machines. I do a lot of work on them, but need Office and Windows for the corporate bits, so my main desktop machine is... a Mac, and I carry a Surface to customers.
(I also don’t see Linux developers flocking to it in droves, which is sad because it is a lot cleaner and easier to use than Gnome and KDE, IMHO, but then again Linux has always been more about diverging choices than unity—and I don’t mean the desktop environment here).
The only thing Elementary needs to do is allow for disabling all animations, to get rid of the perceived latency issues some folk complain about...
But I digress. It isn’t an OS, and you get all the Linux legacy underneath, so it’s understandable that Fuchsia is happening. Google seems to be attempting to lay a new foundation here, and I think it’s actually a good idea to do so, although the number of third-party packages and run times they’re bringing in makes it hard to peg it as “legacy-free”.
Time will tell, I guess.
1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12830761