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Honestly, just get Elementary OS, this is the closest you can get to MacOS if you are "get things gone" kind of person. And support the team too! They do a grea

by haddr 10y ago

Honestly, just get Elementary OS, this is the closest you can get to MacOS if you are "get things gone" kind of person. And support the team too! They do a great job!

Ar-Curunir 10y ago
Did you read the article? The author evaluated Elementary OS and found it lacking for a number of reasons.
- haddr 10y ago
  Sure! And did you read my comment? I don't say "people who want to recreate their own desktop from all the software available" but rather "gtd" kind of people, who doesn't mind if their nvidia driver is from 4 months and not from yesterday. As long as everything works who cares? Sure, OP has his points (although the neovim is not the case anymore), but same bugs appear in other distros, unfortunately :(
  - ricardobeat 10y ago
    Sorry, but the parent commenter had a point - it sounds like you did not pay enought attention to the article. > elementary almost completely removes menus. As a heavy keyboard shortcut user this makes discovering shortcuts difficult > the Mac App Store, Homebrew and Arch Linux. With each of these it’s a simple matter to install the latest version of a tool or application. On elementary I ran into a number of cases where software I wished to install did not exist in the Ubuntu repos or were outdated > as time went on I started running into more bugs [...] At this point the system was actively harming my productivity This doesn't seem to fare very well for your 'as long as everything works' view. The difficulty to install popular software is the exact opposite of that. I love Elementary OS and its UI style/guidelines; found it many years ago, but have stayed with OSX since. As the author mentions, basing it on a Ubuntu LTS release comes with consequences and is a questionable decision for a desktop.
lbenes 10y ago
If your primary requirement is "looking" like MacOS, I found Deepin to look just as similar, while being far less buggy. Then again both Deepin and EOS are buggier than Ubuntu. If you're open to the idea of trying a new Desktop and a "get things gone" kind of person, you should try out Ubuntu.
- haddr 10y ago
  Elementary Os is based on Ubuntu, but it's true that many things still need to be polished. The thing is that most of the time you work in apps, and this is where most annoying things usually happen.

by haddr 10y ago

Honestly, just get Elementary OS, this is the closest you can get to MacOS if you are "get things gone" kind of person. And support the team too! They do a great job!

Ar-Curunir 10y ago

Did you read the article? The author evaluated Elementary OS and found it lacking for a number of reasons.

haddr 10y ago
Sure! And did you read my comment? I don't say "people who want to recreate their own desktop from all the software available" but rather "gtd" kind of people, who doesn't mind if their nvidia driver is from 4 months and not from yesterday. As long as everything works who cares? Sure, OP has his points (although the neovim is not the case anymore), but same bugs appear in other distros, unfortunately :(
- ricardobeat 10y ago
  Sorry, but the parent commenter had a point - it sounds like you did not pay enought attention to the article. > elementary almost completely removes menus. As a heavy keyboard shortcut user this makes discovering shortcuts difficult > the Mac App Store, Homebrew and Arch Linux. With each of these it’s a simple matter to install the latest version of a tool or application. On elementary I ran into a number of cases where software I wished to install did not exist in the Ubuntu repos or were outdated > as time went on I started running into more bugs [...] At this point the system was actively harming my productivity This doesn't seem to fare very well for your 'as long as everything works' view. The difficulty to install popular software is the exact opposite of that. I love Elementary OS and its UI style/guidelines; found it many years ago, but have stayed with OSX since. As the author mentions, basing it on a Ubuntu LTS release comes with consequences and is a questionable decision for a desktop.

lbenes 10y ago

If your primary requirement is "looking" like MacOS, I found Deepin to look just as similar, while being far less buggy. Then again both Deepin and EOS are buggier than Ubuntu. If you're open to the idea of trying a new Desktop and a "get things gone" kind of person, you should try out Ubuntu.

haddr 10y ago
Elementary Os is based on Ubuntu, but it's true that many things still need to be polished. The thing is that most of the time you work in apps, and this is where most annoying things usually happen.