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Gnome is not that different from Mac. You have your Mac-style status bar at the top, dock for apps which you can float or hide, typical window management, etc.

rewgs 2y ago
Gnome's top bar isn't a global menu, though. It's completely different and IMO pretty much useless.
- zevon 2y ago
  KDE has a global menu bar that works like the one in MacOS.
  - cosmic_cheese 2y ago
    Kind of. Last I checked it’s broken under Wayland, and under X11 there’s a lot of apps that don’t populate it.
    - zevon 2y ago
      I'm using it under Wayland right now. Though you are right that there are apps that don't populate it.
  - rewgs 2y ago
    It's pretty hit or miss. And so far, for me, nothing comes close to topping Hyprland -- I'm perfectly happy without a global menu bar at the moment.
mattl 2y ago
Gnome is very different from Aqua. I used Gnome daily for a really long time. Gnome 3 is actually pretty good these days but it took a while to get there. Aqua is still pretty solid but some of the shine is starting to fade. I have all the Apple Intelligence stuff turned off yet I got a pop up ad in the OS for “Image Playground” Apple’s solution? Turn off Image Playground in Screen Time settings. Ridiculous.
cosmic_cheese 2y ago
I use GNOME daily on one of my laptops and I don’t agree at all. It has some surface-level similarities, but overall is more comparable to something like iPadOS or Samsung DeX when connected to an external screen+KB+mouse. The global menubar is the biggest difference, but there’s also a pervasive difference in philosophy throughout the desktop; where macOS will have power user functionality tucked away in a menu or hidden behind a modifier key (progressive disclosure), GNOME will just remove the function altogether. Pantheon is very similar, except dressed up in an (admittedly pretty) skeumorphic theme that reminds me of OS X 10.9 Mavericks. That’s not to say it doesn’t have its charms, I use it after all, but it’s not a Mac OS analogue in any way.

rewgs 2y ago

Gnome's top bar isn't a global menu, though. It's completely different and IMO pretty much useless.

zevon 2y ago
KDE has a global menu bar that works like the one in MacOS.
- cosmic_cheese 2y ago
  Kind of. Last I checked it’s broken under Wayland, and under X11 there’s a lot of apps that don’t populate it.
  - zevon 2y ago
    I'm using it under Wayland right now. Though you are right that there are apps that don't populate it.
- rewgs 2y ago
  It's pretty hit or miss. And so far, for me, nothing comes close to topping Hyprland -- I'm perfectly happy without a global menu bar at the moment.

mattl 2y ago

Gnome is very different from Aqua. I used Gnome daily for a really long time. Gnome 3 is actually pretty good these days but it took a while to get there. Aqua is still pretty solid but some of the shine is starting to fade. I have all the Apple Intelligence stuff turned off yet I got a pop up ad in the OS for “Image Playground” Apple’s solution? Turn off Image Playground in Screen Time settings. Ridiculous.

cosmic_cheese 2y ago

I use GNOME daily on one of my laptops and I don’t agree at all. It has some surface-level similarities, but overall is more comparable to something like iPadOS or Samsung DeX when connected to an external screen+KB+mouse. The global menubar is the biggest difference, but there’s also a pervasive difference in philosophy throughout the desktop; where macOS will have power user functionality tucked away in a menu or hidden behind a modifier key (progressive disclosure), GNOME will just remove the function altogether. Pantheon is very similar, except dressed up in an (admittedly pretty) skeumorphic theme that reminds me of OS X 10.9 Mavericks. That’s not to say it doesn’t have its charms, I use it after all, but it’s not a Mac OS analogue in any way.