5/24/2023 0 Comments Linux that looks like mac![]() ![]() The software center of Ubuntu probably pre-dates any kind of AppStore from Apple, i.e., this is an element that was taken from the Linux world into the Mac world. It has a side bar with applications large icons only (instead of the bottom bar with small icons and text, as in traditional Windows), which is also inspired by Mac (although many Linux distributions had this already for a long time). It has a top menu bar that changes depending on the application window that is in focus, which is something that Mac OS introduced. Unity really incorporated a lot of the typical Mac elements. ![]() I went to see his Macintosh, and it did indeed looked awfully like Unity and GNOME. This is mainly because for most people anything that isn't Windows looks like Mac. I find that most "layman" people's reaction to Linux is some sort of ambiguous look, followed by "Are you running Mac OS on a PC?". He went with text starting as "Wow, Linux looks like Mac, crazy!", ElementaryOS is a distribution of Linux, based on Ubuntu and GNOME, which pretty much copied all the GUI elements of Mac OS X.
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