• hello_hello [comrade/them]
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    3 months ago

    Fedora Workstation or Silverblue. They come with the latest GNOME desktop environment which is closer to Mac's design vision minus all appleisms and steve jobs worship. You can easily install extensions using the extension manager flatpak application which adds neat functionality like window tiling and blur.

    If you want complete customization and control you can instead use Fedora KDE/Kinoite which you can customize to look like MacOS or your own custom design. I personally think KDE is generally more powerful and feature-rich than GNOME but GNOME has a simple but unique and intuitive design that doesn't change and the GNOME devs are legit artisans when it comes to eye candy. GNOME is also the default Linux desktop on a lot of distros which is a plus.

    Silverblue and Kinoite are atomic variants of Fedora that are based around atomic (one-click) updates to the OS image. It eliminates the haphazard-ness of Linux updates but certain things that are basic on non-atomic spins are slightly more involved (like installing additional programs outside of the ones in the image).