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Deepin Desktop Environment, or DDE, was designed with the philosophy of providing a beautiful and user-friendly experience for the average user.
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Pros
Pro Well-designed in every detail, developers have a professional aproach to the system
Deepin has a sane default set of apps including custom apps of their own design that gives the distro a very consistent look and feel. By working with the community on these tools as well as custom translations there is a great sense of polish when using it that is not often seen when using such a new desktop environment.
Pro Gives warning messages when upgrading packages using apt
Deepin uses their own modified version of apt. When there is a distribution upgrade available and if we try to upgrade by running "sudo apt upgrade", then this modified version of apt gives this warning message, "DDE programs will work abnormally if run this command. Run sudo apt dist-upgrade or sudo apt full-upgrade instead."
Pro Seemless transition form Windows to Linux
Easy to install, comes with default packages to typical needs e.g. Chrome, WPS office, System Monitor and a bunch of multimedia utilities. Its easy to install and uninstall applications, it has a great app store and is fast. On same laptop run much faster than Windows 10 did.
Pro Excellent apps
Having Deepin installed also means you have thousands of quality apps to choose from. The apps which come with installation will suit your needs to browse the Internet, listen to music, watch videos, talk with friends, editing documents or simply any task you want to do at home or in your office.
Pro Awesome distro for anyone
It has its own file manager, video player, DDE environment. Everything in this OS is different in design and excellent. The audio clarity is very good too.
Cons
Con Not that lightweight
Deepin is not the most lightweight desktop environment out there. For example, a laptop with 2GB of RAM and an i3 CPU has problems running it.
Con No good accessibility!
Deepin diesn't offer any "Univercal Access" or "accessibility" features in its settings panel. Also shortcuts for the screen magnifier are not in the shortcuts list, but there are shortcuts for it: Super++ and Super+-. But can't access a screen reader or braille support.
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Pro Has their own tool kit
They have their own tool kit called "Deepin Tool Kit". And they themselves uses it.
Con GNOME keyring is poor
GNOME keyring asks you for your su password, every time you open browser.