With my first reader requested review of Crunchbang being a success I decided to do another. This time I took on Elementary OS: Luna. I am currently on a 6 year old HP ProBook with core i5 processor and 4GB ram and do all distribution reviews on VirtualBox.
In my research I read a few random reviews of Elementary OS and found that many people are claiming that this is a good alternative to Mac OS. Elementary OS is based on Ubuntu and it runs Pantheon for a desktop environment which is based on Gnome 3.
If you are downloading Elementary OS directly from the website you may see a dollar amount of $10.00 above the download button but paying is an option. This is how they cleverly ask that you pay for their product if you like it. As with most Linux distributions, donations are always accepted as this work is offered for free, however that is a post for another day.
Install
The install for Elementary OS was fast and similar to an Ubuntu install. It ran through all the basic questions regarding location and language. After the reboot, I noticed that the system was running a tad slow. To speed it up I installed preload and zram-config as well as ran all updates and upgrades to the system.
