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Re: Airyx OS

#12

Post by zepto »

vzaliva wrote: post #9

Projects like these will be always one step behind the thing they are trying to replicate (MacOS in this case). It is better to spend one's creative energy innovating and coming up with better solutions rather than re-implementing what Apple is doing.

> It is better to spend one's creative energy innovating and coming up with better solutions rather than re-implementing what Apple is doing.

I’d argue that there is room for both.

But, who is attempting anything better?

Re: Airyx OS

#13

Post by chaostheory »

shortformblog wrote: post #5

Airyx’s developer may want to say hello to the developers of Hello, who are doing something very complementary to this with UX—and are quite far along already. https://hellosystem.github.io/docs/

I probably missed a lot of things, but didn’t Gnome already achieve this? Weren’t most of the people behind its design from Apple?

Re: Airyx OS

#15

Post by seltzered_ »

shortformblog wrote: post #5

Airyx’s developer may want to say hello to the developers of Hello, who are doing something very complementary to this with UX—and are quite far along already. https://hellosystem.github.io/docs/

"0.2.2 is the first build of Airyx based on the helloSystem components and FuryBSD LiveCD installer. It can be run or installed from the ISO and should have better hardware support, in addition to the slick helloSystem desktop and applications."

via https://github.com/mszoek/airyx/releases

Re: Airyx OS

#16

Post by cercatrova »

Can I compile iOS apps on this? That's honestly the only thing holding me to macOS, I really wish Apple didn't force every iOS developer to use macOS to do so.

Re: Airyx OS

#17

Post by shortformblog »

chaostheory wrote: post #13
shortformblog wrote: post #5

Airyx’s developer may want to say hello to the developers of Hello, who are doing something very complementary to this with UX—and are quite far along already. https://hellosystem.github.io/docs/

I probably missed a lot of things, but didn’t Gnome already achieve this? Weren’t most of the people behind its design from Apple?

The developer of Hello would disagree with you: https://medium.com/@probonopd/hellosystem-three-layer-ux-des...

Re: Airyx OS

#18

Post by DanAtC »

chaostheory wrote: post #13
shortformblog wrote: post #5

Airyx’s developer may want to say hello to the developers of Hello, who are doing something very complementary to this with UX—and are quite far along already. https://hellosystem.github.io/docs/

I probably missed a lot of things, but didn’t Gnome already achieve this? Weren’t most of the people behind its design from Apple?

Ubuntu's Unity was a lot more macOS-like with the default global menu bar, then they gave up on it :( Gnome doesn't even have a menu bar anymore, preferring apps use a single hamburger menu.

Re: Airyx OS

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Post by shortformblog »

seltzered_ wrote: post #15
shortformblog wrote: post #5

Airyx’s developer may want to say hello to the developers of Hello, who are doing something very complementary to this with UX—and are quite far along already. https://hellosystem.github.io/docs/

"0.2.2 is the first build of Airyx based on the helloSystem components and FuryBSD LiveCD installer. It can be run or installed from the ISO and should have better hardware support, in addition to the slick helloSystem desktop and applications." via https://github.com/mszoek/airyx/releases

Good eye. Probably should be made more clear in the readme, because it’s the obvious question that came up for me.
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