Mac look alike?

[thomas]

Bas Roufs wrote:
> 2009/11/27 Patton Echols <p.echols at comcast.net>:
>   
>> 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.
>>     
>
> You could try installing Kubuntu at the laptop - this is Ubuntu with a
> KDE window manager. "Clone" is not the right word. But the graphical
> "look and feel" of Kubuntu is quite similar to that of a Mac.  More
> info:
> http://www.kubuntu.org/
> Respectfully yours,
> Bas.
>
>   
Quite similar is far short of being same as.  She needs a computer that 
she will be very
comfortable with.  If she needs to use Windows she can with a MAC.  
Ditto for Ubuntu.
No Window computer can run MAC OS.