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Is there a Linux distro out there that is themed to look like HaikuOS and works well?
by xyproto 5y ago
Is there a Linux distro out there that is themed to look like HaikuOS and works well?
- capableweb 5y agoI guess you could look for themes (Gnome: https://www.gnome-look.org/p/1143497| https://www.gnome-look.org/p/1143497| XFCE: https://www.xfce-look.org/p/1013908/ https://www.xfce-look.org/p/1013908/) but you won't get the same unified GUI as Haiku has, since everything is built with unification in mind, compared to the Linux ecosystem where modularity is usually king. I guess Elementary OS is as close to a unified GUI you come that runs with a Linux kernel, but it tries to look more like macOS than BeOS.
- rvense 5y agoThe looks are the least important part. It works differently. Applications interact in a different way, there' APIs (especially around filesystem metadata) that applications and scripts can use. It's not necessarily that the capabilities don't exist on other systems, it's just that they're exposed and most importantly used in a different way. It's also a system that was built from the ground up to be GUI-based. The command line is there, but it's not the primary means of doing anything much. There are BeOS/Haiku window decoration themes for at least XFCE and I think OpenBox. But looks are really not what Haiku is about.