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I've never heard of Elementrary before. Is the goal to have the look and feel of macOS?

As a heavy macOS user, it doesn't seem that macy to me.

There's far fewer flat icon in its design, the shortcut hints are styled in a completely different manner, there's no global menu bar (not that they have a choice with GTK+), and the top bar widget actions are more complex than the ones you see in macOS

It’s like popos but with MacOS look and feel.

I'd say more "macOS UX" than "look and feel".

Does it allow you to drag a file into a terminal and get a path to that file in the prompt? That's a VERY neat user experience I like about OSX that I miss in my Linux Mint PC.

Those sort of things would make it a "UX alike" instead of only "look and feel"

> Does it allow you to drag a file into a terminal and get a path to that file in the prompt?

I just tried this in the previous Elementary OS version and, yes, it works.

(Tested using "Files" & "Terminal" applications.)

It also shows a little green "+" circle hint (i.e. copy) when the file icon is dragged over the Terminal window.

Thats so cool. Thanks for sharing.

Hmm, my impression of Pop!_OS is that it's a more opinionated Gnome desktop on a pretty standard Ubuntu base (I like their tiling options). elementary seems like a more ambitious project, but since they don't make and sell hardware too, (unlike System76 and Pop!) it seems like they have more of an uphill battle.

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