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I am a recent convert to Linux Desktop and it doesn’t sound like you’ve used Linux Desktop lately. I use Ubuntu 20.04 and it is far better than Windows or macOS

I am a recent convert to Linux Desktop and it doesn’t sound like you’ve used Linux Desktop lately. I use Ubuntu 20.04 and it is far better than Windows or macOS.

kitsunesoba 5y ago
It depends a lot on an individual’s needs/preferences. For example if one prefers a macOS-like environment with a global menubar and such, the closest they can probably get is heavily customized KDE, which will still have shortcomings like some apps not integrating with your global menubar. GNOME is closer to iPadOS than macOS, and elementary/Pantheon aesthetically resembles macOS but doesn’t function like it. There’s tons of options for Win9x desktop clones, though. The best of those IMO is Cinnamon, or if configured correctly XFCE and Budgie.
- derekjdanserl 5y ago
  Well, sure, if you want macOS then macOS will be your best bet. I can’t imagine wanting that very particular and often very awkward top menu bar functionality. I was a heavily invested macOS user for many years and always found it a minor aggravation that I could only have one application’s menu bar up at a time.
  - kitsunesoba 5y ago
    It’s the other way around for me. I use 27”+ monitors most of the time, which makes maximizing windows a waste of screen real estate in most circumstances, so I tend to have odd sized windows which means chasing menubars around the screen under Windows and Linux. Also, increasingly Windows+Linux apps are eschewing menubars entirely in favor of hamburger menus or nothing at all (!!!) which is intensely frustrating. With a system-owned global menubar there’s no excuse for the developer to not have menus. Unfortunately many of the same apps that are resorting to hamburger menus don’t expose their menus through dbus or something similar which breaks global menubars in KDE and those added to other DEs with extensions. I really really wish there were an XDG standard for Linux apps to programmatically expose menus with.

I am a recent convert to Linux Desktop and it doesn’t sound like you’ve used Linux Desktop lately. I use Ubuntu 20.04 and it is far better than Windows or macOS.

kitsunesoba 5y ago

It depends a lot on an individual’s needs/preferences. For example if one prefers a macOS-like environment with a global menubar and such, the closest they can probably get is heavily customized KDE, which will still have shortcomings like some apps not integrating with your global menubar. GNOME is closer to iPadOS than macOS, and elementary/Pantheon aesthetically resembles macOS but doesn’t function like it. There’s tons of options for Win9x desktop clones, though. The best of those IMO is Cinnamon, or if configured correctly XFCE and Budgie.

derekjdanserl 5y ago
Well, sure, if you want macOS then macOS will be your best bet. I can’t imagine wanting that very particular and often very awkward top menu bar functionality. I was a heavily invested macOS user for many years and always found it a minor aggravation that I could only have one application’s menu bar up at a time.
- kitsunesoba 5y ago
  It’s the other way around for me. I use 27”+ monitors most of the time, which makes maximizing windows a waste of screen real estate in most circumstances, so I tend to have odd sized windows which means chasing menubars around the screen under Windows and Linux. Also, increasingly Windows+Linux apps are eschewing menubars entirely in favor of hamburger menus or nothing at all (!!!) which is intensely frustrating. With a system-owned global menubar there’s no excuse for the developer to not have menus. Unfortunately many of the same apps that are resorting to hamburger menus don’t expose their menus through dbus or something similar which breaks global menubars in KDE and those added to other DEs with extensions. I really really wish there were an XDG standard for Linux apps to programmatically expose menus with.