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I wiped Win11 from my Ideapad and installed Ubuntu. I love Gnome & it's the closest it'll get to MacOS (am a Mac user mainly). Win11 was absolutely wild though

I wiped Win11 from my Ideapad and installed Ubuntu. I love Gnome & it's the closest it'll get to MacOS (am a Mac user mainly). Win11 was absolutely wild though - around every corner was some ad for Office365 or Copilot or some other shit product. You don't own Windows (anymore) - you borrow it.

breve 1y ago
Guide for setting up KDE like macOS (or you can install a macOS theme): https://www.howtogeek.com/heres-how-i-made-linux-feel-more-like-macos-using-kde-plasma/ https://www.howtogeek.com/heres-how-i-made-linux-feel-more-l...
- bsimpson 1y ago
  As a lifelong Mac user, I'm mildly tempted to do something like this in SteamOS, but with limited real estate: two panels feels like potentially wasting pixels, and the bottom edge is probably easier to reach on a touchscreen gaming handheld. I'll do some tweaking, but the ultimate UX has to feel right on this device, not just familiar to what I use elsewhere. Plus, I mostly use Desktop Mode for Chrome, which doesn't really use the menu bar. But I appreciate the share!
- MangoToupe 1y ago
  Obviously missing things: 1. Needs to fix keybindings, including setting readline shortcuts across all gui textfields. May be effectively impossible with so many gui toolkits floating around. 2. Needs a gui to manage configuration of startup items, login items. 3. Portable application distribution rather than futzing with installing a third party package source (may be effectively impossible for gui apps). 4. Cleaner systemd configuration tooling and especially documentation, even if it can't be expressed via a gui. 5. Cleaner process management. 6. Cleaner user management via GUI. The look and feel mostly doesn't matter tbh; you'll just end up with something that looks like macos but still mostly functions like windows but without consistent keybindings or behavior or system management.
  - breve 1y ago
    1. You can configure the keyboard shortcuts in KDE. Or use something like Toshy: https://github.com/RedBearAK/Toshy https://github.com/RedBearAK/Toshy 2. KDE Autostart 3. KDE Discover. Supports flatpak for example: https://flathub.org/en https://flathub.org/en 4. SysD Manager (https://github.com/plrigaux/sysd-manager https://github.com/plrigaux/sysd-manager). Can be installed from Flathub. SystemdGenie is another one. 5. KDE Plasma System Monitor 6. KDE User Manager

breve 1y ago

Guide for setting up KDE like macOS (or you can install a macOS theme): https://www.howtogeek.com/heres-how-i-made-linux-feel-more-like-macos-using-kde-plasma/ https://www.howtogeek.com/heres-how-i-made-linux-feel-more-l...

bsimpson 1y ago
As a lifelong Mac user, I'm mildly tempted to do something like this in SteamOS, but with limited real estate: two panels feels like potentially wasting pixels, and the bottom edge is probably easier to reach on a touchscreen gaming handheld. I'll do some tweaking, but the ultimate UX has to feel right on this device, not just familiar to what I use elsewhere. Plus, I mostly use Desktop Mode for Chrome, which doesn't really use the menu bar. But I appreciate the share!
MangoToupe 1y ago
Obviously missing things: 1. Needs to fix keybindings, including setting readline shortcuts across all gui textfields. May be effectively impossible with so many gui toolkits floating around. 2. Needs a gui to manage configuration of startup items, login items. 3. Portable application distribution rather than futzing with installing a third party package source (may be effectively impossible for gui apps). 4. Cleaner systemd configuration tooling and especially documentation, even if it can't be expressed via a gui. 5. Cleaner process management. 6. Cleaner user management via GUI. The look and feel mostly doesn't matter tbh; you'll just end up with something that looks like macos but still mostly functions like windows but without consistent keybindings or behavior or system management.
- breve 1y ago
  1. You can configure the keyboard shortcuts in KDE. Or use something like Toshy: https://github.com/RedBearAK/Toshy https://github.com/RedBearAK/Toshy 2. KDE Autostart 3. KDE Discover. Supports flatpak for example: https://flathub.org/en https://flathub.org/en 4. SysD Manager (https://github.com/plrigaux/sysd-manager https://github.com/plrigaux/sysd-manager). Can be installed from Flathub. SystemdGenie is another one. 5. KDE Plasma System Monitor 6. KDE User Manager