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I tried it, looking for something for my wife's 12 yearold laptop, and really liked how clean it looks and that you have 4 easy click ways to alter the desktop workflow. They are also working on Grid? as a deploy and update system for businesses wanting to manage multiple machines centrally. The only reason I didn't keep it was the machine it was intended for will not boot a deb based OS. It throws a hardware bug that deb based distros don't work around during install or reboot. So ended up with NixOS on that machine. Which has been awesome too.