MacOS beauty on Linux?

Is there any way to make Linux look as good as MacOS? I hate proprietary software and love the freedom on Linux. But no matter what Linux desktops always seem to look so damn ugly. I have to admit that whenever I see screenshots of MacOS, it looks so nice. Serious question, is there any way to get Linux to look as good? I don't think it's just a matter of slapping on a theme, since it depends on the DE and even the individual applications themselves. How can I get Linux to look beautiful?

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I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called "Linux", and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called "Linux" distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.

Use KDE Plasma.

Deepin or just get a compositor with openbox or something simple, put on a overused gtk theme and icons and you're good

Use pantheon. It's the closest you'll get to Mac Os X

>using a gui

The closest you'll get without hackintoshing is by installing either ElementaryOS or any distribution with stock GNOME.

No. Even if you try ape Cocoa, it will work like shit compared to macOS. Trust me, I've been there, decided to bite the bullet and get a used mac. Liked it so much I built a hackintosh.

>mfw Apple's market cap
say it with me: $900 billion

popOS is more aesthetic than elementaryOS imo

Plasma seems pretty good in terms of functionality, but it still doesn't come anywhere close to the beauty I see in MacOS screenshots. Am I doing something wrong?

>Am I doing something wrong?
using shitnux

If you're using Ubuntu there's this guide:
noobslab.com/2016/04/macbuntu-1604-transformation-pack-for.html

Pop!_OS looks like default GNOME with a flat theme on top. elementaryOS gray windows with semi-skeumorphism icons look more elegant for me

An user posted this a while back. Thought it looked nice.

that looks like shit
macOS master race

Use the DE that comes with elementaryOS

The desktop kind of looks like macOS but what about when you do something not on the desktop?

I wonder what's the time

reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/5yzwic/xfce_a_mac_os_look_for_my_netflixnotes_laptop/

you should find this amusing. Redditfags have a real knack for wanting to imitate macOS for some reason. This is the closest I've seen.

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You've deluded yourself. I use a Mac at work and can't stand the poor performance and bizare, user unfiendly behaviour. I feel like a second class citizen when I use a mac. There's some nice things about MacOS, but when I get home and boot my Linux machine, I feel happy, everything is smoother and faster.

Untrue

The dock is embarassing.

Proofs?

I have a same experience. Consider Mac the music player, it looks nice for you to watch. But you cannot create, you can not experience. Linux is the instrument, that you can feel in your heart, a beautiful song. If you suck the instrument, your song will be bad. But, your song may be beautiful with understanding.

impossible.
Even with a pixel perfect meme theme it'll fall apart whenever you try to interact with it
user friendly for me

The problem with MacOS is all the little stuff. Terrible window management, spotlight's strange ranking system, bluetooth headphones dropping into headset mode, default services breaking, constant high memory usage, launchpad not always updating, ridiculous terminal latency (just try to use tmux on a 4k monitor), terrible app store, bad scheduling, finder is shit, having to change desktop backgrounds for every space, laggy present windows with many windows open, kernel panics on unplugging displayport and coming back from sleep

I'm sick of writing now but my point is that this is the kind of stuff I have to deal with on a daily basis. There's plenty of nice things too but when you start putting the pressure on the OS, it degrades incredibly quickly. MacOS really is the meme os designed for Facebook.

the most ironic analogy considering how much more popular macos is in the music industry.

And you're basically saying that linux is only good if you know how to properly use it. which is not only a useless skill but means bad design.

>music is made on computers
are you joking now? music is made with instruments

>linux is only good if you know how to properly use it
this applies to everything, the difference is linux isn't shit when you establish it, it is art.

linuxbbq.org/wiki/index.php?title=User_friendly

>And you're basically saying that linux is only good if you know how to properly use it. which is not only a useless skill but means bad design.

It's that kind of thinking that fuels the absolute trash that is modern ui design. Everything is designed to make it as simple as possible, leaving out the fact that most designers have no clue what their audience actually needs to do and are designing for the lowest common denominator, IF they are designing for anyone but Dribble.

There's a reason why editors like Vim and Emacs are so popular today, despite being products of 80's era technology. It's because they are incredibly powerful, and the individuals that use them realise that there's value in having tools that speed up your critical work, even if it requires learning and practice.

And that's what it comes down to: No one is willing to learn their tools. It's pure lazyness, born out of the Facebook generation. They'd rather sit there, hunt and peck typing their way through their job, then complain that their wage is too low.

Fuck modern design and fuck the people it's aimed at. Giving computers to normies was a mistake.

Just go full hackintosh. Time to grow up, boys.

Bugger off mate I already told you MacOS is a bad OS and well and truly a bad UNIX.

Bugger off mate I already told you MacOS is a bad OS and well and truly a bad UNIX.

>stop using something that works great, is efficient, and that you are comfortable with because I don't like it

uwu

>fagOS
>beauty

ew

Pasta

Just installed elementaryOs in my chromebook and I feel pretty gay now. Really comfy set up though. Theme is OSe-Light.

R-rude

>But no matter what Linux desktops always seem to look so damn ugly
Are you serious? Linux desktops are absolutely beautiful and very customizable.

Why don't you just get a Mac?

install Deepin OS

Deepin Manjaro is the way to go. It's pretty much Arch Linux, but with the Deepin DE (which is the only actually good-looking de for Linux)

The only bad things about it is that it only works on X11 and that the programs that come with the de (like the file manager) don't respect the gtk theme since the window chrome is baked into the applications (Qt is shit.)

Sure, write your own window manager and software forks. Read Apple's guidelines on interface design too, they're super interesting. Apple is fucking autistic when it comes to user experience.

Plasma looks more like Android's style of flat design desu. Still looks fucking orgasmic, but Apple does it better.

t. winshit babby
I do admit, the fullscreen resizing behaviour is autistic in new versions, but I cum buckets whenever I use mac. I literally have to wear a nappy to absorb the precum.

A lot of stuff on that sub is just riced macos

Infinality and KDE Plasma.

BudgieDE looks very good to me with adapta theme and papirus icons. Just set the taskbar transparent and disable shadows.

Is elementaryOS still trash? I remember it being trash.

It's a glitzy trash nowadays. But still trash.
Basically lipstick on a pig.

The only thing I liked from it was the file manager, as it actually tried to get a little bit closer to Finder. To be honest though I like Dolphin better now.

>he uses a handholder OS
>he doesn't change his DE himself
>he has the AUDACITY to post on Sup Forums

get debian and get a nice gnome them with a good icon pack and install dash to dock

Proprietary software.

I'm serious. I've tried Gnome, Plasma, and i3, messed with different themes and stuff. It can look okay, but nowhere near the beauty of MacOS. I think part of it is probably the consistency across the entire software stack, and having actually good programs. On Linux the DEs have a lot of rough edges, and then the individual applications are a shit show with tons of inconsistency and no clear design guidelines that anyone's following.

An user is extracting the DE from RedStar OS to use it in other distros, we are getting there.

Just hackintosh already

I might actually try this with all the shilling for it. What's the setup like? How hard is it? Can I dual boot Hackintosh and Linux?

how did you change the pic inside the circle?

>install XFCE
>get a macos theme
>get macos icons
>gg
>u got macos beauty

>What's the setup like?
Difficulty is dependant on pc, but basically it consists of dsdt patching, making cpu ssdt (ssdtPRGen.sh), getting right kexts(drivers) and customising clover bootloader config.plist until everything works.
My pc is laptop, so i found already customised clover for it and tweaked from there.
pic related

thanks user!

I think gnome/deepin/budgie look/can look great very easily. Plasma looks flashy but not to my tastes. Slap Arc on Gnome with paper icons like the cool kids do and it looks fine.

it can be time consuming, look up 'vanilla hackintosh install' if you're up for it though

reddit.com/r/hackintosh/comments/68p1e2/ramblings_of_a_hackintosher_a_sorta_brief_vanilla/
pretty easy if you follow this

Noobslab has a really good osx theme for Ubuntu

Jast get a hackintosh install going, it's really easy.