Make Linux look like Mac OS 9

https://lunduke.substack.com/p/make-linux-look-like-macos-9

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whalesalad• 4 years ago

I’m still trying to sort out macOS keybindings on Linux. I put Arch (EndeavorOS) on a 2015-ish Retina MBP and everything “just works” much to my surprise. If I can sort out keybindings I could probably switch 100% but the inconsistency of clipboard actions from app to app is extremely frustrating.

boudin• 4 years ago

Usually it's only in terminals that ctrl+c is mapped to BREAK signal instead of copy. Most terminal emulators allows you to remap copy and paste shortcuts. If you remap those to ctrl+c and ctrl+v, you can then have a consistent behaviour behind ctrl+c/v

leejoramo• 4 years ago

Have you seen Kinto? It goes a long way to getting full macOS style key bindings

https://kinto.sh/

mercnet• 4 years ago

Check out https://medium.com/@canadaduane/key-remapping-in-linux-2021-... for ideas. I plan on trying https://github.com/rvaiya/keyd on my new setup.

rzzzt2• 4 years ago

"Make Linux look like BeOS 5" when?

blacksmith_tb• 4 years ago

I'm more a Gnome person myself but there is this[1] if you use KDE.

1: https://store.kde.org/p/1018166/

gandalfff• 4 years ago

This might be up your alley.

https://www.reddit.com/r/UsabilityPorn/comments/raqjcy/lxde_...

lproven3• 4 years ago

ZevenOS did a remarkably good job of this: http://www.zevenos.com/

Their screenshot gallery gave an idea: http://www.zevenos.com/screenshots/screenshots-zevenos

A mini-review from back then: http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/ZevenOS-5-0-delivers-...

I know, old -- but there are some comments in Haiku groups in various places that they are planning a relaunch.

It was a good-looking distro. I ran it for a while, and while it was basically Xubuntu but themed, it was very _nicely_ themed. Looked good, felt good, worked well. If you liked BeOS, which I did, a lot.

rzzzt2• 4 years ago

Is there any connection to Zeta?

bW9yYgo2• 4 years ago

I miss the old E16 themes that mimicked other operating system's UIs.

mech422• 4 years ago

Enlightenment is still going :-) (1) and E16 had a release last November(2). Seems like Raster is still active as well ! :-D

'dharrop' seems to have a big repo of E16 themes (3)

1) https://www.enlightenment.org

2) https://www.enlightenment.org/e16

3) https://github.com/dharrop/themes

bW9yYgo2• 4 years ago

Heck yeah!

I've stuck with E over the past few decades and took the journey from E16 to 0.25.1 :)

doggydogs94• 4 years ago

Of course, the only command line in OS 9 was the MPW Shell.

lproven3• 4 years ago

You say that like it's a bad thing.

BugsJustFindMe• 4 years ago

I'd like to make macOS look like Mac OS 9.

4ff618• 4 years ago

i really want a KDE plasma theme for windows 10

anthk• 4 years ago

I'd prefer Mac OS System 7, a bit cleaner.

yourapostasy• 4 years ago

Not only cleaner, but a crisp, ultra-low latency responsiveness in the Finder that I call "movie UI quick", or "blank document UI quick". You don't see that kind of crisp/snap except in movies or when opening a new blank document. Other applications varied in that crispness, but were generally good.

I don't see much of that crispness these days on Linux, macOS, or Windows, but we're dealing with so much vastly more capacity and capabilities that I don't much begrudge modern UI's their relative slowness as it isn't mostly under their control. Ironically, on the web we're replaying a throwback to the "smart" mainframe terminals of yesteryear. But adoption of more intelligent UI mechanics (client-side caching of data in databases, streaming-to-cache scrolling lists so only the visible part of the list is rendered first, predictive filling of lists beyond the canvas-visible portion, etc.) to squeeze through rough/slow connections is slowly catching on. Meta and everyone else playing around with VR/AR will need all those techniques and more to render the kind of properties they envision into mainstream contexts.

musicale• 4 years ago

There's a lot to like about 1990s UI designs - for example, they tend to have clearly delineated controls and to be more easily discoverable.

The spatially-oriented Finder of classic Mac OS has some nice properties as well, such as visual stability and a 1:1 mapping between windows and folders.

Saint_Genet• 4 years ago

I remember when Nautilus went spatial per default. The flamewars went on for months.

Make Linux look like Mac OS 9

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