I actually wouldn’t want a Linux machine to act like a Mac. I like Macs because of the way they are, but I use Windows at work and I use it differently. I’ve tried to make them act like each other and it just doesn’t work. I have 30 years of experience with Windows that isn’t going away (I still reach for CTRL+ALT+DEL which on a Mac is CTRL+⌘+DEL (which doesn’t do shit (just tried it, it doesn’t do shit) but I also have 2.5 years of experience with Macs (and I do try ⌘+Q to quit apps, which is ALT+Q and I don’t think it does anything (unless a menu’s alt shortcut is Q, which would be very rare).
Linux… I’ve used it off and on (mostly off) since the 90s. I really liked Red Hat, in the Win98/2000 days. I know it became Fedora Core and is now just Fedora. Always liked Ubuntu. But — and I’m preaching to the choir here — I understand what Linux is, being a kernel and not an OS. A distro is just a set of tools. So yeah, I like GNOME, I like KDE enough, I’m sure there are other options and I honestly haven’t used either of those in a couple years.
Quick question: back in the day, you could switch desktop environments. There was KDE, GNOME, and another one (like X Windows or something). That was cool. I’m sure there’s a way to do that now. That’s what I’d have. One environment for some stuff, another for other stuff. I’m sure it’s possible. I just don’t really hear about it being done.
HubertManne@piefed.social 17 hours ago
I think you don’t hear about it because its really not much of a thing nowadays. Like my distro zorin uses gnome and I was fine with it for awhile and I would belly ache on forums like this that they should switch to kde. Finally I got off my lazy but and installed kde. once I had the window manager just lists the options. I actually end up with a few because I installed all kde and zorin has its own (well its just a different preconfig of gnome) so I have a drop down for zorin, gnome, kde plasma, and kde x11. thats it done. by installing kde I got that with nothing further done on my part. So its so easy now you just don’t get people talking about it really. Personally I loved the next step machines which is why I liked osx but then when ios influence went into osx it drifted away from what I like. Now I mostly just want window snapping.
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 hours ago
You mostly want window snapping on what? Can’t help ya on Linux. macOS added it, kinda badly, last year or the year before. Before that, I was using a free app called Rectangle to do it. There was another one that was paid that apparently did more, but Rectangle was good enough for me. I stopped using it when Sequoia or Tahoe added it. My needs aren’t that great.
HubertManne@piefed.social 2 hours ago
um im using zorin with kde. maybe im using the term wrong but for me it means I can use the super button and arrow or mouse and moving the window to the edges or corners to halvies the windows or in the case of corners use a quarter of the screen. Its the main reason I installed kde is for it. It does not have stuff like being able to adjust the windows in tandem but that is at best a minor nicety to me.