Mac look alike?

[Patton Echols]

On 11/27/2009 01:42 AM, Avi Greenbury wrote:
> Patton Echols wrote:
>
>   
>> My daughter is interested in replacing her laptop and has said she is 
>> interested in a Mac.  Seems to be mostly because of the eye candy and 
>> the scroll type launcher.  But I've never used a Mac so I've no idea 
>> really what she is looking at.  Are there settings that could be used 
>> for a similar look and functionality on the desktop?  Are there
>> things that a Mac does that can be cloned?  If there are suggestions,
>> I will try it on her account on my desktop machine and see how she
>> likes it.
>>
>>     
>
> There are OSX themes for both KDE and Gnome on kde-look.org and
> gnome-look.org (or certainly used to be). These give the right look and
> feel, but don't to much for the functionality. From what I recall, the
> KDE one was more convincing.
>
> For functionality, it depends which bits she particularly wants. Maybe
> try the themes and ask what's still missing? 
>   

I think that's what I'll do.  At this point I don't know whether it's 
the eye candy or something else she's enamored with.  Since it sounds 
easy to find out, probably a good strategy.
> Of course, the big advantage, IMO, with a macbook is that they're built
> like brick toilets. If I could afford one I'd get one for the hardware
> alone.
>
>   


Ok, That's good top know.  The only "experience" I have with Macs is a 
former colleague of mine used one and was forever not able to get things 
to work.  (But I suspected it was just him) and my nephew who managed to 
break the display on his macbook and for some reason didn't or couldn't 
get it repaired.