Elementary OS [SEP] inception
OS founder Daniel Foré has said that the project is not designed to compete with existing open source projects but to expand their reach. The project also seeks to create open source jobs through developer bounties placed on specific development tasks. As of the 2016 Loki release, 17,500 in bounties had been raised.
Development 0.1 Jupiter.
The first stable version of elementary OS was "Jupiter", published on 31 March 2011 and based on Ubuntu 10.10. As of October 2012, it is no longer supported and thus no longer available
learning curve, rather than full-fledged customization.
The three core rules the developers set for themselves were "concision", "accessible configuration" and "minimal documentation".
Since its inception, elementary OS has received both praise and criticism for its design. "Wired" claimed that the operating system closely resembles macOS, both visually and in terms of user experience. However, the elementary developers dispute this.
Pantheon's main shell is deeply integrated with other elementary OS applications, like Plank (a dock