Elementary OS – Fast, open, privacy-respecting replacement for Windows and macOS
Some of the comments here feel weird.<p>Elementary OS has picked a specific niche, and its arguably the best distribution in it. 
It has a really well designed and consistent UI experience, and you can't break it.
I think most of you just don't realize how difficult linux is for people who barely understand how to use a Mac or Windows machine.<p>Furthermore, linux is a world where mainstream distributions still release with horrible UI experiences with numerous typography mistakes, icons of different sizes and grid alignment imbalances everywhere.<p>Like check out this Mint (grey theme) screenshot: <a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Linux_Mint_17_MATE.png/1200px-Linux_Mint_17_MATE.png" rel="nofollow">https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Li...</a>
and compare it with elementary OS here
<a href="https://news-cdn.softpedia.com/images/news2/elementary-os-0-5-juno-gnu-linux-distro-could-use-ubuntu-s-snappy-technologies-518038-2.jpg" rel="nofollow">https://news-cdn.softpedia.com/images/news2/elementary-os-0-...</a><p>Mint is great, but seriously. Look at that logo render. Even worse, look at the start bar. Every single text and logo has a different height. I mean how do you even do something like that unintentionally?<p>I am using XFCE right now, and it's great because its much faster than KDE or Gnome on this old laptop. But it sure isn't a pretty UI. 
I know a MSc. designer and she claims using my laptop makes her physically sick and dizzy. I don't care as much, but I can see the point. Everything is misaligned, in the start menu, the task bar, the apps. In the window bar the buttons and the minimize arrow aren't the same size. I mean seriously, whoever did this just did not care about Ui.<p>I don't think ElementaryOS is for everyone. If you have any interest in non-standard repos, recent kernels or doing stuff in commandline, you are just better off elsewhere. I understand their choices, but I don't use it because of how they do the app store, among other things.<p>But if you just want a computer that runs, looks good and doesn't break if you do X, then I think ElementaryOS is the #1 choice in the Linux world, and we should be thankful that it exists.