Mac look alike?

[NoOp]

On 11/28/2009 04:41 AM, Chris Jones wrote:
> 
>> There were people suggesting that he just buy a Mac. That's not
>> Ubuntu support, it's Mac advertisement.
> 
> 
> He asked if it was possible to tune ubuntu to look and work like OSX.
> That is a valid ubuntu question. My answer was no, if you really want
> to see what OSX is like you have to look at a real OSX machine. Just
> because the truthful answer is you can't (IMO) does not mean we
> shouldn't post it to this list.
> 
> 

He asked:
>> 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.

Perhaps my post went astray, so I'll repost:

On of my "give-a-system" users had only used a mac notebook. When it
broke I took an old desktop & installed a mac theme on it for her. She
was happy as can be. See:

<http://maketecheasier.com/turn-your-ubuntu-hardy-to-mac-osx-leopard/2008/07/23>
<http://maketecheasier.com/turn-your-ubuntu-intrepid-into-mac-osx-leopard/2009/01/08>
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mac4lin/

Now *that* is on topic. Patton can give mac4lin etc a spin on his
desktop and see if that meets his/her needs.