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It may be appealing enough for a user to try it, but I foresee disappointment. Mac OS is not only about the UI but also about all the software for it. How easy

It may be appealing enough for a user to try it, but I foresee disappointment. Mac OS is not only about the UI but also about all the software for it. How easy it is to install and use it out of the box. Drivers are never an issue. It is very unlikely that the average user will have to run commands in bash or edit some config files in a text editor. It would be cool if some Linux variant could resemble Mac in this way.

machiaweliczny 6y ago
Isn't system76 and PopOS like that?
- pwdisswordfish6 6y ago
  No, have you used it? The Gnome customizations that go into Pop_OS! are more noticeably influenced by Windows-isms than they resemble Mac-like design (unfortunately -- the Windows influence leads to poorer outcomes that only really make sense when you realize that it's because it matches something in Windows, and not because there's any good from-first-principles rationale for those things).
  - mst 6y ago
    I think they meant "like that" wrt drivers not being an issue and not having to drop out of the GUI.
  - christophilus 6y ago
    It’s my daily driver. I’ve used Windows and OSX heavily for the past 30 years. Pop is not really like either. It’s its own beast, and I rather like it.
- macksd 6y ago
  No. The Pop! OS UI is basically gnome with tiling. I wouldn't say it draws from either Windows or Mac OS, though I think Gnome takes cues from Mac OS. I wanted to like the tiling, but I always seemed to get lost after a few hours if I was task switching too much, so I just switched back to KDE, which is definitely more Windows-like. For me the draw to System76 is the hardware, knowing the right drivers are already integrated, etc. and their focus on CUDA / TensorFlow tooling. The first 2 are common reasons to like Apple and their philosophy... edit: Oh - like another commenter I misunderstood and thought you were discussing resembling the UI. But no you're talking about integrated hardware and software and I guess that's the point I ended up agreeing with :)
mekkkkkk 6y ago
> Drivers are never an issue. If you talk about system drivers it's not really fair. Having control of all system components makes driver support a joke compared to handling the constant avalanche for PCs. Try installing a hackintosh and you have a good chance of immediately running into Linuxesque driver issues. If you talk about peripherals I've had plenty of issues on macOS.

machiaweliczny 6y ago

Isn't system76 and PopOS like that?

pwdisswordfish6 6y ago
No, have you used it? The Gnome customizations that go into Pop_OS! are more noticeably influenced by Windows-isms than they resemble Mac-like design (unfortunately -- the Windows influence leads to poorer outcomes that only really make sense when you realize that it's because it matches something in Windows, and not because there's any good from-first-principles rationale for those things).
- mst 6y ago
  I think they meant "like that" wrt drivers not being an issue and not having to drop out of the GUI.
- christophilus 6y ago
  It’s my daily driver. I’ve used Windows and OSX heavily for the past 30 years. Pop is not really like either. It’s its own beast, and I rather like it.
macksd 6y ago
No. The Pop! OS UI is basically gnome with tiling. I wouldn't say it draws from either Windows or Mac OS, though I think Gnome takes cues from Mac OS. I wanted to like the tiling, but I always seemed to get lost after a few hours if I was task switching too much, so I just switched back to KDE, which is definitely more Windows-like. For me the draw to System76 is the hardware, knowing the right drivers are already integrated, etc. and their focus on CUDA / TensorFlow tooling. The first 2 are common reasons to like Apple and their philosophy... edit: Oh - like another commenter I misunderstood and thought you were discussing resembling the UI. But no you're talking about integrated hardware and software and I guess that's the point I ended up agreeing with :)

mekkkkkk 6y ago

> Drivers are never an issue. If you talk about system drivers it's not really fair. Having control of all system components makes driver support a joke compared to handling the constant avalanche for PCs. Try installing a hackintosh and you have a good chance of immediately running into Linuxesque driver issues. If you talk about peripherals I've had plenty of issues on macOS.