 Hi, I'm Den Sheehan here. My thoughts on Deepin as an open box user. First of all, let's begin with an introduction to Deepin, the desktop environment, because it is also a Linux distribution that comes with the desktop environment, but the main focus of everything Deepin is the actual desktop. So Deepin is meant to be beautiful first and foremost. If you go to the website, it will say, well, you know, this entire desktop environment is focused around just looking very, very good and sure having functionality for everyday use so it's marketed towards the average user, but not for less powerful hardware. And I'll touch upon that later. It is a large library of Deepin programs, so Deepin's music player, notes program, talk about those later as well. And they're specifically for the desktop environment. Obviously you can install them for other things, but they're really meant to be used with Deepin. So let's begin with exactly that, what I really liked. The ecosystem, so I really do enjoy when desktop environments have some kind of ecosystem. So in this case, we have the calendar program open, the file manager, the settings and the text editor all open here in the Deepin desktop environment and they look beautiful. You can set an accent color to change as well. It's part of the GTK theme. You know, they're just very well designed aesthetically and they functionally work together. Here's another example, you got the PDF viewer, got the notebook, like audio recording thing, their notes program, kind of it's called the draw or something, but it's very good. It's a vector software, which is kind of odd for a notes program, but okay. And that's their terminal emulator, running Kava. So here's another screenshot, got the calculator and the really, really good Deepin music program, it's a great program. So yeah, I really did like the Deepin ecosystem. So it's clearly a well-designed desktop environment and it's polished. The programs fit in aesthetically and functionally. However, it's a bit big. The space it takes up, so that's 646.75 megabytes to download, install Deepin and it's 174.38 to download it, which is a lot. And for some reason, if you look down on that screenshot at the bottom right, it installs a little thing in the kernel, which I don't really get the point of them. I don't really know what that does, but I wouldn't let a desktop environment install something into my kernel. It's also literally big. So the actual display scaling by default is set to 1.25, like it's just stupidly large for some reason, that kind of caught me off guard, but I just had to lower it and restart and it was basically fixed. I don't think that's such a good idea. I guess it's supposed to be marketed towards users who want a lot of beautiful and I guess high-resolution monitors come with that, like a really beautiful environment on a high-resolution monitor, but I don't think it looks any good. So I'm not a big fan of the display scaling being so high by default. Here, as you can see, I've turned it down to one, but it's still quite large. Here's another thing I disliked, performance. So Deepin literally uses around 1.7 just gigabytes idle, not doing anything at all, which is a lot. That sounds like we're getting to Windows numbers there. It's a lot for a desktop environment and sure it does look good and it has a lot of effects, but that's a lot of memory. So it is an incredibly high-resource usage, more than GNOME, and this is mostly due to a combination of using GTK 3, which is heavy, along with heavily themiate and animations. It has a lot of background processes that run to ensure certain functionality at the desktop environment. So yeah, it's got a lot of stuff running in it. And another thing I disliked is it's a little too closed. I'm not, like, like, closed. I mean, more that I'm not a big fan of them theming GTK the way they do. It does look really good, but you know, Deepin is false, so this isn't concerning freedom or just code availability. So when I say closed, I'm not talking about it being proprietary. Although some people say that it's Chinese spyware, but that's not really justified. But as I said, things like the global GTK 3 theme can mess some programs up, and it's very clear when you start Deepin that it's really meant to be used with its programs and not the programs that you wanna choose, which is normally what will happen in a window manager or a more stock desktop environment. So yeah, my conclusion is Deepin is a bit weird to me. It's very polished, a very polished desktop environment to choose. It's very well made and stuff. It's got a lot of programs, but it's got some glaring flaws, like the fact that any program which isn't really meant for it sort of clashes, and it has that GTK 3 theme, which can mess some programs up. It's resource heavy, which I don't really like. I don't like for, you know, desktop environments that are really resource heavy and bit bloated, that's not good. But there's no denying it does look beautiful. It's going back to those screenshots from before. Yeah, it looks really, really good. It's got a very nice theming when it works together and a nice icons by default as well. So I hope you enjoyed this short video on the Deepin desktop environment. I'll be doing more of these desktop environment rundowns. Goodbye.