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Deepin

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Deepin is a reinterpretation to creativity and individuality. It is not only a rebirth to the system appearance, but also a brand-new upgrade to the operating experience! All of this lets deepin become the best partner of your computer.

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  • Linux
2.8 / 5 Avg rating (5)
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  1.  Intuitive Interface

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  1.  No registration required
  2.  Based on Debian

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  • Developed by

    Wuhan Deepin Technology Co.,Ltd.
  • Licensing

    Open Source and Free product.
  • Rating

    Average rating of 2.8
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  • Supported Languages

    • English

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Our users have written 7 comments and reviews about Deepin, and it has gotten 56 likes

Deepin was added to AlternativeTo by camis on Mar 12, 2012 and this page was last updated Nov 19, 2024. Deepin is sometimes referred to as Deepin, Hiweed GNU/Linux, Hiweed Linux, Hiweed.

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Top positive commentMay 30, 2017

I love Deepin this is my personal fav linux distro! And I love how different it is to others like the settings app how it is not a window it pops out on the side! 10 out of 10!

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John Fastman

Hi SecurityChecker. Interesting name you have, given this problem: Deepin is not secure. It makes unencrypted connections to known Chinese trackers via its app store without user consent. This means someone in China is probably monitoring your system. See the links above for more information.

If you're so very madly in love with the desktop environment, you should know that it's possible to install it on most other Linux distros (e.g. Antergos, Manjaro, Ubuntu, etc.). Some distros even have a version with it directly for distribution (e.g. Manjaro). At least that way you'd have a secure OS underneath the GUI. However, I'd stick well away from anything Deepin-related.

Reply written May 6, 2018

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vesterlay

To this date no one has proven that Deepin spies on its users. Those "unencrypted connections" were app store analytics that didn't send more than some basic parameters like screen size, browser and other user agent information.

Reply written Dec 31, 2021

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Top negative commentJan 6, 2024

Deepin has been reported on too many occasions that certain user data, notably on application usage, was sent to servers in China. Furthermore, it is important to note that this is one of the only distributions that require users to agree to an EULA, confirming the collection of certain user data (It's the only Linux distribution to ask for such a thing, as far as I know). The only positive point is the rather successful design. It's not enough to consider Deepin a good-quality linux distribution.

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ab1
  
Negative commentApr 27, 2022

Deepin is quite slow in updating even the most important packages. Not good for my usage. Might be good for you...

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s0me0ne
CommentNov 2, 2019

It's based in China, so not sure it can be trusted due to current news. Not to be political, but just saying, be careful what you use.

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William Grant
  
Positive commentMay 20, 2019

Man have i tested Linux, like many people we keep trying and trying looking and looking for some thing else, well i stop here. YES HERE ...including the feed back it give to its makers letting theme know its been installed, Or for some NONE fraudulent purposes, WELL that's ok with me because so does Microsoft ,google,apple, etc etc just like someone else said in here, but there comments were removed which i find malicious intent to put off anyone like my self to installing it, well my search for my type of Linux is STOPS here, p's at last ... :-) :-) :-) :-)

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John Fastman
  
Negative commentMay 6, 2018

Beware! Spyware!

The app store of Deepin 15.5 makes unencrypted connections to known Chinese trackers, which is a serious security and privacy risk. This occurs approximately 20 minutes after boot-up without warning and without the user's consent.

For more information:

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manueljlin

the deepin store has been now rewritten without cnzz

Reply written Aug 12, 2018

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CommentMay 30, 2017

Best looking UI and easy to use with Unique design! Love it!

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What is Deepin?

Deepin is an easy-to-use Chinese distribution based on Debian icon Debian. Its features include pre-configured Chinese applications and tools, such as Chinese input method, the LibreOffice icon LibreOffice office suite, Chinese-English and English-Chinese dictionaries, and Chinese TrueType fonts. It also delivers a highly customised GNOME icon GNOME 3 desktop and a large number of usability enhancements.

Deepin is based on Debian and makes use of the Debian software repositories. As such, both distributions are very similar. deepin's main difference is the Deepin Desktop Environment, developed specifically for deepin. It is a modern desktop environment intended to be attractive and intuitive for novice users.

The seamless collaboration of deepin operating system and applications allows you to perfectly do many things, no matter you browse web pages, enjoy movies, do social interaction through network or do daily office work. Adhering to perfect unity of refinement and simplicity, we have devoted countless efforts to deepin, carving and polishing every detail, thus to give you more outstanding experience.

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