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Re:Apple's Software Quality Crisis: When Premium Hardware Me... by Take8435 on Monday March 03, 2025 @09:37PM (#43249610)
> If you’re someone who grew up on Macs there’s almost nothing in the Linux desktop space that tries to replicate that set of patterns… it’s all Win9X-type taskbar setups, mobile-type setups (GNOME, Pantheon), old niche *nix setups (e.g. WindowMaker), and of course minimal tiling WMs. There’s no clones of Mac OS of any flavor.

Have you seen https://hyprland.org?

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Re:Apple's Software Quality Crisis: When Premium Hardware Me... by rezonant on Monday March 03, 2025 @10:01PM (#43249785)
What about hyprland makes you think of Mac? These two things barely resemble each other at all.
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Re:Apple's Software Quality Crisis: When Premium Hardware Me... by Take8435 on Monday March 03, 2025 @10:28PM (#43249937)
He said he never found a solution. Hyprland is customizable, so he can make one?
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Re:Apple's Software Quality Crisis: When Premium Hardware Me... by cosmic_cheese on Monday March 03, 2025 @09:47PM (#43249690)
I know of it but haven’t tried it. It looks kin to minimal tiling WMs like i3, but with a lot of polish applied. It’s nice I’m sure, but it’s not all that Mac-like.
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Re:Apple's Software Quality Crisis: When Premium Hardware Me... by Take8435 on Monday March 03, 2025 @09:51PM (#43249721)
Have you checked out Pop_OS?
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Re:Apple's Software Quality Crisis: When Premium Hardware Me... by cosmic_cheese on Monday March 03, 2025 @09:56PM (#43249755)
Yep. Their tweaked GNOME variant isn’t too bad, but it doesn’t fit the bill much more than vanilla GNOME does. Not that enthusiastic about what I’ve seen of COSMIC so far.
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Re:Apple's Software Quality Crisis: When Premium Hardware Me... by matwood on Tuesday March 04, 2025 @01:48AM (#43251145)
Part of the issue is that people who don’t use Mac’s think it’s only about the looks. The looks are secondary and it’s about all the little pieces of functionality that have been a part of macOS for decades at this point.
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