On: Apple's Software Quality Crisis

[Take8435]

> 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?

[rezonant → Take8435]

What about hyprland makes you think of Mac? These two things barely resemble each other at all.

[Take8435 → rezonant]

He said he never found a solution. Hyprland is customizable, so he can make one?

[cosmic_cheese → Take8435]

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.

[matwood → cosmic_cheese]

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.

[Take8435 → cosmic_cheese]

Have you checked out Pop_OS?

[cosmic_cheese → Take8435]

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.