> At first glance, I thought this was another Linux distro with a custom window manager, not a new operating system. But it is its own operating system!
Indeed, these "reskinned"* Linux distros seem to be so common, it's easy just to make assumptions.
This (Essence) looks pretty impressive - to be built from scratch and have a nice clean (dare I say it... "non-linuxy looking") UI is even more impressive.
* "Reskinned" is probably a bit of a lazy term here - many of them are a lot more than that - but still, the point is that the value prop. is often the nicer more user-friendly aesthetics layered on top of an existing distro. What we're looking at here seems a lot rarer. Snapping at the heels of ChromeOS?
Indeed, these "reskinned"* Linux distros seem to be so common, it's easy just to make assumptions.
This (Essence) looks pretty impressive - to be built from scratch and have a nice clean (dare I say it... "non-linuxy looking") UI is even more impressive.
* "Reskinned" is probably a bit of a lazy term here - many of them are a lot more than that - but still, the point is that the value prop. is often the nicer more user-friendly aesthetics layered on top of an existing distro. What we're looking at here seems a lot rarer. Snapping at the heels of ChromeOS?