My parents have this old 2015 MacBook Air that they wanted to use but couldn’t due to no security updates and slow running. I convinced them to let me load up fedora on it instead of junking it. They only really need it for some basic document writing, email, and web surfing so I figured this is perfect for them.
Made a bootable drive with Fedora 43 work station on it, figured gnome would be the most Apple like spin. Everything went super smooth until I realized that the WiFi drivers weren’t installed lol. I also didn’t have a Ethernet adapter for usb-a so I had to overnight it to me while my parents swore I bricked their Mac all night. Got the adapter this AM, hooked it up, installed the drivers and other necessary tweaks, and viola! This Mac has new life.
So far my parents are liking it and understanding it (even though my mom seems more excited about the snoopy wallpaper and Firefox theme, lol). Getting their emails on thunderbird was driving me crazy. Nothing to do with thunderbird, they just didn’t know their passwords smh. All in all not bad. To new Linux converts
You really haven’t checked lately, then.
Yeah, that scrollbar on KDE doesn’t inspire confidence.
Don’t be difficult.
You really cannot argue that the layout, and hence how people would actually navigate it is not “about the same”. Your words.
To bring up a cosmetic difference is a nitpick. It’s the breeze theme, with a personal color scheme on top, not something explicitly made to look like MacOS. Which it could be.
TIL the amount of things to twiddle is a ‘cosmetic difference’.
It is.
That MacOS doesn’t display the scrollbar except while scrolling, does not reduce the height of the total list.
Both have search fields for good reason.
Yeah sure. One needs to wade through dialogs for three days every time they want to change something, that’s the Windows and KDE way!
And has been the MacOS way for a while now, too.
What was your point, again?
Only a blind man could think that MacOS’ design approach is the same as KDE’s.