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>get a seasoned linux to try MacOS or Windows and you'll recognize weaknesses on the other approaches too. The tricky part of identifying “weaknesses” coming f

>get a seasoned linux to try MacOS or Windows and you'll recognize weaknesses on the other approaches too. The tricky part of identifying “weaknesses” coming from and going to any two OSes or desktop environments is figuring out exactly what qualifies as a weakness and what is simply unfamiliar. Like for example, a lifelong Windows user is probably going to think that anything that’s not the spitting image of a Win9X style desktop is chock full of “weaknesses”, and a diehard tiling WM veteran Linux user is going to see anything not built around tiling as “weak”, when neither is fully true in an objective sense. This is a bit of a frustration for me as someone who primarily uses macOS but dabbles in Linux: most people haven’t used macOS extensively, and so Mac-style desktops tend to be seen by the individuals who develop DEs as full of “weaknesses”, and as a result there are no Linux DEs that are mac-like beyond the surface. There’s no shortage of Winlike DEs though.

follower 5y ago
FWIW I've (mostly) moved from Mac to Linux for around a year now & decided on elementary OS which has Mac as a primary influence: https://elementary.io https://elementary.io I don't like everything about it but it has been the most usable/value-aligned Linux distro I've encountered so far.
- jorvi 5y ago
  Sometimes I wish everyone in Linux just came together and worked together in one big kumbaya. Arch it’s rolling release base, with Nix for configuring it, Elementary its UI and UX and pop_OS’s willingness to put users ahead of principle. Top it off with Red Hat backing and Ubuntu popularity and oh baby. I know I know, strength in diversity. But a man can dream..
btdmaster 5y ago
Not exactly Linux, but would helloSystem[1] be suitable? [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26092040 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26092040
- kitsunesoba 5y ago
  I’ve been keeping my eye on that and it will probably come closer than anything else to date, but I’m skeptical that it’ll nail everything so long as it’s using Qt. Much of what makes macOS interesting is rooted in Cocoa, so a good macOS clone is going to have to be built in something that’s a close analogue (if perhaps modernized in some ways) to Cocoa.
- sneak 5y ago
  The thing that makes the Mac the Mac is not the window chrome.

follower 5y ago

FWIW I've (mostly) moved from Mac to Linux for around a year now & decided on elementary OS which has Mac as a primary influence: https://elementary.io https://elementary.io I don't like everything about it but it has been the most usable/value-aligned Linux distro I've encountered so far.

jorvi 5y ago
Sometimes I wish everyone in Linux just came together and worked together in one big kumbaya. Arch it’s rolling release base, with Nix for configuring it, Elementary its UI and UX and pop_OS’s willingness to put users ahead of principle. Top it off with Red Hat backing and Ubuntu popularity and oh baby. I know I know, strength in diversity. But a man can dream..

btdmaster 5y ago

Not exactly Linux, but would helloSystem[1] be suitable? [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26092040 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26092040

kitsunesoba 5y ago
I’ve been keeping my eye on that and it will probably come closer than anything else to date, but I’m skeptical that it’ll nail everything so long as it’s using Qt. Much of what makes macOS interesting is rooted in Cocoa, so a good macOS clone is going to have to be built in something that’s a close analogue (if perhaps modernized in some ways) to Cocoa.
sneak 5y ago
The thing that makes the Mac the Mac is not the window chrome.