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> I never thought this level of imitation would be possible in the free world. I've seen (and had at some point) much better results than those seen there (the
by lloeki 8y ago
> I never thought this level of imitation would be possible in the free world.
I've seen (and had at some point) much better results than those seen there (the screenshots here are painful to look at – OMG uneven spacing), at the time based on GNOME 2 (with a GTK patch for the global menu). Even then it's a far cry from being anything remotely like macOS and, while functional, leaks at every seam and reeks of being a shallow imitation: it's meagre coat of paint that flakes all around†. Whenever I am to use a Linux/BSD machine now I'd rather embrace the environment†† instead of attempting to mimic an entirely foreign one.
† To each their own, I'm happy that the author found a good compromise, it's just not one I'm willing to make.
†† Generally using some i3, awesome, or *box (none used as tiling window managers), minimising the use of GTK/QT apps as much as possible (a bit extreme but I visually can't stand them).
- laumars 8y agoImitation is definitely not the way to go. I have the same problems using Windows and OS X because I'm so ingrained into the Linux desktop that I find it really painful to make quick hacks to OS X to get it working the way I want (OS X might give a more polished "out of the box" experience, but it's also less flexible should you want anything even just subtly different to Apple's vision of the world). And Windows is just Windows. I don't think there has ever been a commercial platform released that even comes close to how terrible Windows (throughout it's numerous iterations) is.