#elementaryos

Keep the tempo Metronome beats the rhythm for you, you simply need to tell it the required time signature and beats per minutes. You can also tap to let the application guess the required beats per minute. A boilerplate template to get started with GTK, Rust, Meson, Flatpak made for GNOME. It can be adapted for other desktop environments like elementary. gitlab.gnome.org/World/metronome

Someone requested it, so i did it! this is ElementaryOS riced to look like ubuntu. If you would like to know how to do this yourself click the pastebin link for a tutorial! (I promise ill get back to art soon I just like doing nerdy shit :3c)

For over 10 years, I only bought Apple products. From TV to smartphone, from computers to tablets, through the collection of music players.

When my MacBook Air broke during a trip through the Amazon Rainforest, I finally joined the Linux Universe. I bought a new notebook, guess what brand? Samsung. :) I started my journey to get to know the different Linux distributions and learn the software I needed for my work. One day, working on a book publishing, I couldn't view the InDesign file on my notebook and had to view it on the computer of the guy who was also working on the project.

And he asked me: Why do you use Linux? And the first answer that came to my mind was: First because I can.

The transition required learning new tools and modifying a workflow I spent over a decade building. One of the changes was to ditch the Adobe software I spent years using, and get used to using software like Inkscape, Gimp, and Scribus.

The ability to learn and adapt to new situations is very important, especially when this change is for the better.

Maybe I think that way because I always had to learn to change and adapt. In college, I learned to use Corel, and then they started teaching Illustrator. At the time, I asked teachers to attend classes to learn Illustrator, but it wasn't enough. I decided to take an Illustrator course at a Design school. Even after finishing the course, I still wanted to use Corel because I was more used to working that way. Many times when I had to perform a task, I knew it would be faster if I used Corel. I had to uninstall Corel from my computer to force myself to do everything in Illustrator and learn to use this new tool once and for all.

When I had to migrate from Illustrator to Inkscape, I had already learned my lesson. Also, it wasn't as difficult as I thought. As a long-time Apple user, one of the first distributions I tested was ElementaryOS 5 because of the attention to detail and similarity to macOS. But over time I realized that there were bugs and things that I didn't like in the system. For me, what remained was, "it didn't have to be so complicated". I went back to using Xubuntu because I never forgot the comfort that Xfce's stability brought me, and I worked on Xubuntu for a long time. I customized it with a very nice theme and icon set called FlatRemix.

With the release of ElementaryOS 6 seeing the many changes they had made, I thought, "finally". Especially the dark mode, something that was missing when using the EOS 5. I thought they had finally got it right and decided to give it a try. This time I tried to embrace ElementaryOS the way it is without customizing or changing anything. There is an idea behind this proposal and I wanted to understand what it was. After a few months of using ElementaryOS on all my machines, I decided that I couldn't do it anymore. There were things that I didn't like about the system, and that didn't change. Choosing which distribution I would use reminded me of when I "fixed" my mother's computer.

One day I visited my mother, and she complained that the notebook was very slow and had several problems. I made a backup of her files and installed ZorinOS.

When I first saw Zorin, I thought: "This is a system to install on my mother's computer"

It is clear, objective, and self-explanatory. Looking at the site, anyone can understand what it is about. They practically don't even talk about Linux, and you don't have to. Most of the time it works: "I will install a better system than Windows" All I had to teach my mother was: "LibreOffice: here are the programs you use" After that, I showed her how to print, (the printer was automatically recognized) mission accomplished.

Despite seeing ZorinOS as the best alternative for a person who has never used Linux. For some reason, I believed that I should use another system, something more complicated and with more options. But after my last experience with ElementaryOS I started thinking:

"I want a system that just works. I don't want to have to take 2 steps when I could take only one. I want stability. I want to install a system and know that it will be running smoothly for a long time."

And that's when I discovered that ZorinOS was the best alternative for me too.

The beginning of a new phase with Linux

I finally installed Zorin on my first machine. I had to remember which apps I used in Xubuntu because several apps I had already switched to the Elementary version. After that, I did what I always did. I installed the updates and apps I need. Everything working perfectly. Mission accomplished. Next task: installing ZorinOS on my wife's computers. One day I said: "I'm going to install a new system on the computers." "Why?" I wish I had answered because it's better. But the truth is that I spent a long time talking about all the aspects that I didn't like about ElementaryOS, saying that Zorin was much better and that on top of that they had a version with Xfce, which she already knew from having used Xubuntu for a long time... I installed ZorinOS on one of her computers. And something different happened.

My wife spent a week, daily, telling me why Zorin was better than Elementary.

"It's faster, it's lighter, even the battery life is longer"

I know that some people may disagree with such statements because Linux is a matter that has to do with our sense of identity, with the idea that we are part of a community and that somehow the distribution we use says a lot about who we are and about our operating system view. But I can't deny that that was my experience with ZorinOS and since then it's been very good.