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Ask HN: Are there alternative UIs for macOS?
The current MacOS desktop experience is visually stunning, but becomes stimulating and distracting. Is there an alternative UI for MacOS that would work like TWM, Rio, WindowMaker, or even classic Mac interface?
- aliqot 4y agoAs a followup, in the meantime as a compromise, is there a way to disable the graphical environment post-boot, perhaps just a shell?
- runjake 4y agoWhy? The GUI is the most interesting and useful part of the Darwin OS. The underlying Darwin OS isn't terrific. If you're not interested in the macOS GUI, you'll be better off running Linux or FreeBSD. But to answer your question: feasibly, no. There was back with older releases.
- aliqot 4y agoI was hoping there'd be at least a fallback option like the legacy Mac UI