Deepin

What do you like best?

1. Deepin uses the Deepin Environment (DE), which is elegant and beautiful, very user-friendly and intuitive. You can choose between having a start up menu like Windows or a dock like MacOS. There is a dark theme and light theme available, and the level of transperancy can be changed. I love the animation and the style of the different icon sets.

2. Deepin uses its own set of apps which are getting better and better. The Deepin app store is the best one of any Linux distro. The Deepin package manager works prefectly with .deb files. The video player plays pretty much anything, it's quite fast and light, you can just drag the subtitles (.srt file) and bring them in. I also love the design of Deepin terminal.

3. Deepin comes with WPS office. If you haven't tried it - please, do! It's the most modern looking office in Linux and it's constantly improving.

4. All updates are one click away. Old Deepin versions had a problem with the download speed from the Chinese servers but it's all in the past now. Downloads are swift, and we're lucky Deepin is a rolling OS.

5. Chrome is preinstalled. Spotify, Skype, VLC Player, qBittorrent, Popcorn times and other great stuff is available.

What do you dislike?

There is a limited number of resolutions available and it is kind of hard to change it to one that's not in the list.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

Give it a try. You won't regret it :-)

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

When a new version of Deepin is available, it typically takes a few weeks for most of the bugs to get solved by the developers.