Earlier this year I was forced to do an OS refresh on my home system, and I decided I wanted something closer to MacOS; before I had a hacked together system that approximated (virtually identical) Crunchbang (#!) - but was based on Ubuntu Minimal (14.04 LTS) and built up from there.

I wanted something that was still "lightweight" in the sense that it did what you wanted and no more; something with a fairly MacOS-like "intuitive" interface. I wanted something that could be configured easily without needing to hack on config files (as I had to do with my mess - updating OpenBox, etc). But I still wanted to be able to easily modify it to make it mine (unlike MacOS which is pretty locked down in the modding department).

I looked at PopOS, I looked at Mint, I looked at straight Ubuntu, and I tried BunsenLabs (what evolved out of #!); it wasn't until I tried Solus that I found the interface I liked - Budgie Desktop.

Unfortunately, I hated the Solus package management system; I wanted my Debian archive files, and Ubuntu repos, etc! But a quick search found me Budgie Ubuntu - I tried it, and loved it.

Ultimately, to each their own; Budgie Linux may not meet your definition of "MacOS-like" - but it met mine, and is certainly worth a look I think. I don't regret choosing it (my only "regret" - which is minor - is choosing the 18.04 LTS - so I couldn't get the latest version of Budgie, and won't until the next LTS release; currently Budgie is on 19.x (x.10 and x.04) - and that version has the latest version of Budgie, but LTS won't get it until 20.x).