Recently it was announced that Cassidy James Blaede (the founder of elementary OS) was exiting the company responsible for one of the most elegant and user-friendly Linux distributions on the market. There's no way of knowing how Blaede's leaving the company will affect the operating system, but I wouldn't be at all surprised if the fallout was far from positive.

Link: Cutefish OS is the cutest Linux distribution you'll ever use
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