Make linux look like OSX?

One thing I have always wondered is if there was a way to get mac functionality wrt the distinction between closing and application and quitting. Because when you close an app it stays open in memory and opening a new window is quicker.
 
Cheetah, yeah Linux does this. Every modern OS I know does it in fact (even Windows has finally caught on with Windows 7).
 
Cheetah Designs said:
How did you get that global menu?
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Gnome global applet, it's already preconfigured for you in pingeee

All you need to do is download pingeee ... burn it to cd or write to usb stick with usb creator and boot from it to test it out without installing.

All I did once installed was to also install the Awoken icon theme and made some performance changes to pingeee and that's it.

Pingeee : http://sourceforge.net/projects/pinguy-os/files/Ping-Eee OS 11.04/

Awoken : http://alecive.deviantart.com/art/AwOken-163570862
 
whitecrook said:
I spent far too long trying it. That's why i bought an actual mac 2 years ago and never looked back. I want to use my computer, not mess about trying to configure it for ever more.
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is it me or are you posing initially as someone who wants help and then spending the rest of the thread trolling? almost gloating emptily?


if you never looked back, then why are you looking back :confused:
 
phill1978 said:
is it me or are you posing initially as someone who wants help and then spending the rest of the thread trolling? almost gloating emptily?


if you never looked back, then why are you looking back :confused:
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Here we go.

Pretty sure in answer to the op the answer is 'yes' and 'no' yes it can look like osx, but wont work like osx. I still use linux, win and mac everyday. Fvwm2, xp/7 and 10.7 id advise the op that if he really wants the osx then using linux as some kind of osx copy wont work for him unless he likes to spend all his time setting up and configuring. (which ironically is a good reason to use osx, you dont need to spend your life 'setting it all up'). 0.02
 
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moss said:
Strangely, I thought the same about OSX, it looks like it was designed for a child, in my opinion of course. I'm coming from mainly a Windows background, although I do use Linux a reasonable amount.
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I agree totally... And I'm typing this in OSX...

Windows looks the most professional of the three, OSX looks dated but plain and most of the major Linux distros look rather cartoony.
 
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