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Deepin is a distribution that aims to provide an elegant, user-friendly and reliable operating system.
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Pros
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 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 Based on Debian
It is based on Debian which is the best Linux distribution for desktops.
Pro Rolling release
It's a rolling release. Meaning that the packages will receive updates quite frequently.
Pro Deepin now fully implements dark theme
Deepin has seen many improvements, enhancements, and features since edition was released. The desktop environment is now fully realizing its potential. The Deepin File Manager has quietly become one of the best, most advanced found in Linux. The Deepin Control Panel is second only to YaST in functionality.
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.
Cons
Con Depends on a company based in China
Source[1]
The Chinese government is very aggressive about imposing its world views[2]
And the legal obligations about answering user-spying requests are similar to those of the US.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepin
The development of deepin is led by China-based Wuhan Deepin Technology Co., Ltd.
[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_apologies_to_China
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overseas_censorship_of_Chinese_issues
https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/dg6fwz/list_of_companies_who_have_apologized_to_chinese/
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Pro Can be made to look like Windows
By default, Deepin looks kinda like macOS but it can be made to look like Windows by right-clicking on the dock and changing the mode from "Fashion Mode" to "Efficient Mode".