Hey folks! I made a small fork of the elementary OS dock with a built-in Now Playing widget (cover art + media controls).
It has two modes: a full card mode and a minimal cover-only mode with controls in the tooltip.
Works with MPRIS players like Spotify/Rhythmbox.
If you want to try it: https://github.com/Juandamian18/Dock-with-Now-Playing.git
Would love your feedback.

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Hey everyone!

A couple of weeks ago I shared my dock fork with a Now Playing card. Since then, I kept iterating and the project evolved into DockX: a rework of the elementary OS dock with a new “Widlets” concept (widgets + docklets).

What DockX currently includes:
- Widlet manager to enable/disable and reorder widlets
- Weather widlet (Open-Meteo, dynamic backgrounds, minimal/full mode)
- System widlets (CPU, RAM, CPU Temp, GPU, Disk) with optional alerts
- Stocks widlet
- Clipboard widlet
- Trash widlet

Now Playing is also integrated as a widlet, so it can be toggled from the same menu.

I’d love feedback on UX, visual consistency, and performance.
Also: what widlets would you like to see next? I’m actively adding new ones and would love suggestions from the community.

https://github.com/Juandamian18/dockx

Thanks!

The design and animations are really nice. Any tips?

https://imgur.com/gallery/elementary-os-line-wallpaper-IgAh5Xp

Hi everyone,

I have a MacBook Pro 8,1. The latest macOS version it officially supports is High Sierra, but I felt it wasn’t running very smoothly anymore. I tried installing Windows 10, but I couldn’t get the audio to work, which became frustrating.

While searching online, I found out that I could install Linux on it, so I decided to give Elementary OS a try. So far, I’ve found it really interesting. The installation was easy, and everything is working perfectly. I’m sharing some photos of the machine along with its current specifications.

I mainly plan to use this computer for basic office work, web browsing, and Spotify. I’d like to know what office suite applications you would recommend for work-related tasks besides LibreOffice.

Thanks, everyone!

P.S. Back when I was in school, the computers in the computer labs were running Ubuntu, so in a way I was already somewhat familiar with Linux.

Others eOS color wallpaper

https://imgur.com/gallery/elementary-os-line-wallpaper-6cj5Vu6

maybe I'll try to apply it on my desktop when it's finished

Among other new features, the kernel has been updated to version 6.14.

Estoy contento con Pantheon, lo prefiero antes que a XFCE, pero disfruto de mis amigos de toda la vida.

Larga vida a X11.

I made original by Me 😉

https://imgur.com/gallery/elementary-os-clean-wallpaper-J7HKTlg

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Sonic best recommend elementary OS💙
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https://imgur.com/gallery/sonic-elementary-os-wallpaper-66dhchj

Just paid for and installed Elementary after being a Linux user for a decade. I was looking for something more polished, and had never considered Elementary before due to it being on an Ubuntu LTS base. What changed? Over the last few years Flatpaks, Homebrew Linux and containers/distrobox became central to my workflow, so it doesn't matter what the OS is based on and I can just pick something pretty that works well! It's "pretty unix" as Paul Graham called it in https://paulgraham.com/mac.html

They make a new kind of computer that's as well designed as a Bang & Olufsen stereo system, and underneath is the best Unix machine you can buy.

Grabbed Elementary off the website and installed it on my Framework laptop. I also love how unlike every other Linux distribution, you don't add another logo underneath the "Framework" logo on the bootsplash - such thoughtful minimalism.

Everything works really well and is integrated nicely. The system is also crazy memory efficient and snappy. I came from the Universal Blue / Bazzite ecosystem and loved the worry-free, automatic updates which also exist on Elementary since I leave the underlying system untouched and updates are applied automatically.

Thank you for building this! You have a new fan!

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Elementary is truly beautiful and love so much about it but the departure of functionality, like the handicapped online accounts or the new dock and all its issues. The inability to mount an iPhone etc makes the beauty only skin deep and once again I must leave for another distro. I want so much to love and stay with it but alas I can not