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Re:Do you really want Linux phones by axiolite on Thursday March 25, 2021 @03:16AM (#26577293)
> why are there so many attempts towards recreating the macOS UI and UX in Linux

I imagine it's because, when the year of the Linux desktop didn't arrive, developers everywhere decided they could make it happen if only they tried hard enough to put together the perfect UI, and so the kitchen-sink approach proliferated.

> Or back in the '90s/'00s, attempts towards recreating the Windows UI/UX?

I take exception to this one. In fact it was Microsoft with Windows 7 (released in 2007) which copied much of the UI of older Linux desktops like KDE and GNOME versions 1.0 (circa 1997). See:

https://linuxgazette.net/165/misc/laycock/gnome.png https://images.channelpartner.de/bdb/490847/1066x600.jpg

Linux desktop environments were better back then. XFce is the only tolerable one I can think of, today. Even there, I hate the defaults and preferred it in the XFce3 days when it was just an (improved) CDE clone. Fluxbox or bust!

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Re:Do you really want Linux phones by Apocryphon on Thursday March 25, 2021 @04:12AM (#26577546)
Lindows came out in August 2001.

There's also ReactOS, though admittedly it's a non-Linux open source OS.

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