I am confused. Domain and headline and frontpage says RayvnOS but by the screen shots it says airyxOS?
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Re: RavynOS – Finesse of macOS, freedom of FreeBSD
#172I struggle with chasing after the MacOS appearance. It feels in passing like a lot of work to build a skin/UI that will always be a few generations of the design language behind and not quite there, just given the volume of staff at Apple and them being the ones defining where their design language goes. Like a choice between a Porsche and, according to Google a Zotye -- they'll look close but one will be the obvious…
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#173Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is one instance where that approach probably pays dividends, if they can pull it off. Most macOS-like clones that I've tried fall short, due to there being only so much you can do to paper-over the Linux desktop experience. A sort of uncanny valley that I just can't get over and adjust to using.
To have the full experience they also need to clone the Objective-C and Swift frameworks, and IDE tooling.
The GNUStep project has already done much of the ObjC framework cloning. I wonder if they're using that. Not sure about Swift frameworks, though.
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#174KDE is a better desktop environment than MacOS, by far. I have had so many usability issues with my Mac that does not exist in KDE/Linux. E.g. Apple confining the GUI and not including basic functionality. Specifically: - I really miss a decent address bar in finder that can be edited directly - some windows on mac are always on top, preventing access to other windows. E.g. Password dialogs for encrypted hard drives.…
Note that you can do "Cut" in Finder by doing "Copy (Cmd-C)" but then using "Alt-Cmd-V". It'll move the file instead of copying.
Also, you can also fix the "caps lock" issue by remapping it to "control". Completely fixes the "caps lock" button. It works on Linux too! ;)
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And still they will perform better than any FOSS attempt to clone their work.
Yeah, FOSS culture is unfortunately neither very good at design, nor attracting good designers for collaboration. Many engineers don't even respect design and/or designers.
I find Gnome has been doing quite nicely with design (despite the haters).
Re: RavynOS – Finesse of macOS, freedom of FreeBSD
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From Wikipedia: > Today, FreeBSD is used by many IT companies such as IBM, Nokia, Juniper Networks, and NetApp to build their products.[16][17] Certain parts of Apple's Mac OS X operating system are based on FreeBSD.[18] Both the PlayStation 3 and Nintendo Switch operating system also borrow certain components from FreeBSD,[7][8] while the PlayStation 4 operating system is derived from FreeBSD 9.[19] Netflix,[20] Wha…
As that quote clearly puts out, it is mostly cherry picked components, and not a proper FreeBSD distribution.
Juniper gear runs JunOS that's almost pure FreeBSD, with added device drivers for their hardware and a CLI layer on top.
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#178Lawsuit from apple incoming in 3 ... 2 ...
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I hear a lot of people saying that. What I find out mostly is their last experience of linux on a desktop dates back to the early 2000 and or crappy distros like ubuntu.
What distro works more reliably than ubuntu?
Literally every one, including Fedora, openSUSE (both Leap and Tumbleweed), Debian, Linux Mint, Manjaro, Void, Arch and Gentoo with their respective derivatives.
Ubuntu is a mess that introduces config-breaking changes every release and rides the already existing market. If Canonical tried to release their products nowadays without their track record and existing user base, they would never succeed.
The peak Linux experience for a Just Werx focused end user is probably openSUSE Tumbleweed on KDE or XFCE. Batteries included, fast and extremely hard to break package manager, YaST2 configuration manager, and lots of user repositories.
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I feel gnome3 is a much better/faster/ergonomic. It works great regardless if you are a keyboard, mouse or touchscreen heavy user. My only gripe is I wish firefox would integrate it better instead with an UI similar to (now defunct?) Eolie web browser. Also I haven't spend enough time with it recently but I think kde plasma has the flexibility to be probably as good as gnome. I just don't like the default settings an…
>Gnome3 When people way gnome3 do they really mean gnome3 or gnome3..gnome43? I really like Gnome 42 and improvement that can be seen in 43, but I didn't like gnome3 at all
The earlier versions weren't as polished as what we have right now and it felt like we were missing features that were working fine on the latest gnome 2 release but this is all in the past. It happened in 2011.
Ironically the same happened in the kde world a few years before. I had been a very happy user of kde 3.x and kde 4.x happened to be a crashy pos and it only really got better with kde5.