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I can't see Linux (or other GNU-desktop-nixlike) becoming a full-time macOS replacement for me because no DE works the way I'd like it to. You've got KDE (Windowslike), GNOME (what if iPadOS were adapted into a desktop OS), XFCE (middle ground between Windows and Classic Mac OS), and Cinnamon (Classic Windowslike), and Pantheon (what if iPadOS looked like Mac OS X Mavericks). None that are an obvious choice for someone who prefers a Mac-like setup. RavynOS/airyx/etc has been posted here a few times but is a long way away from being usable.

I've considered just building a true maclike DE myself but the process of getting a garden variety traditional floating window manager for Wayland set up makes my head spin, even with things like wl-roots existing. It doesn't feel the least bit accessible to someone used to building consumer-facing native desktop/mobile apps.

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> no DE works the way I'd like it to

How come macOS magically just happened to work the way you liked it to? Answer: It didn’t, you just adjusted yourself to use macOS, but now you’ve ossified and think everything not what you grew up with is unnatural.

"Intuitive" is just a code word for "familiar".

The only intuitive interface is the nipple. And even grasping that interface can be a difficult task for a baby.

(After reading that, I have to append; no pun intended.)

Last time I used Linux, Gnome was nearly perfect apart from the huge toolbars they insisted on to satisfy touch users who don’t exist. Hopefully someone see the lights in the next decade.

Are there many people who use those two in one laptops with any sort of linux?

My concern with a classic macos interface (or even a classic windows interface), is how do newer features get mapped to those sorts of d.e.’s. We’re used to so many features (and little apps like windows snipping tool) and features that we might just normally use a given os’ search bar, (this feature seems to have come from os x and moved elsewhere, I’m even forgetting what apple called it…) would there even be an equivalent to be able to make an equivalent? Maybe I’m showing my age (maybe lack thereof, I only know about the “bicycles of the mind quote” maybe from watching a nightline segment featuring Steve Jobs on youtube, or I saw it somwwhere while reading about him/and or the early pc era)…

Maybe someone should make a Linux distro with a DE preconfigured to work "the Mac way", kind of like Linux Mint is preconfigured to be "the Windows way".

There's hello and ravynos that fit in this category, but they're BSD based.

https://hellosystem.github.io/

https://ravynos.com/

Even better!

Time to support Haiku and bringing back the BeOS experience!

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