This might be a stupid question, but why not just copy apple? They have historic roots together, they function in a similar fashion. I wonder how feasible it would be to integrate something like nextcloud, or a fork of, and integrate it and make it a step by step process to seup your own server cloud. You would pretty much need to eleminate the need for a terminal for a typical user for it to be able to be mass adopted. No normal person wants to mess with that stuff. I just want to " click, click, install." And so do most others. But i value my right to privacy, i can get by with tech, but not very comfortable. Id say more techy than most but not as some. There's definitely a market for those people. Id pay good money for something like that. Idk. What are your thoughts?
Aren't you happy with Nextcloud on Settings > Online Account or did you just mean it as an example?
Would a normal person operate a chainsaw or a motor vehicle with no idea what they are doing?
Would a normal person have expectations that they are entitled to a house that they do not have to worry about plumbing or electrical issues?
No.
They may intellectually know that they unreasonably want that... But they know that they do not get what they want merely because they want it.
Because deep down, we do not want it. We think we do, until we have it.
And in reality, human nature (greed) kicks in. If people want something that is convenient and easy and they do not have to think or put any effort in, then there will be a high price to pay. Not always money, because while some may offer to pay good money for a product, not everyone has good money to spare. In this, the customer becomes the product and the cost is not as free as the big corporation says it is.
And Apple (Mac) is proprietary. What is closed source cannot be forked.
People with the money as well as the entitlement can and do buy Apple. That is the niche. That is their niche.
A French guy, David Tavares did just that, except he called it PearOS. Early versions based on Debian did not work very well. He had just launched Pear Cloud and claimed to have sold it to a third-party corporation but it was more likely, a lot of the user community believed so, that Apple closed him down, which was a real shame. It was intended to be resurrected as Clementine, but it had to be changed to Klementine as the devs of the media player Clementine objected. Nothing ever came of it. Another clone, GMac10 was basically a worse incarnation of PearOS 9.3, the last iteration of PearOS. A 21-year-old Romanian, Alexandru Balan, 2 years ago resurrected PearOS, developed Catalina and Monterey, before his last incarnation, NiceC0re. Catalina and Monterey releases are available on https://archive.org.
The November 2023 release worked fine in live mode but never installed properly. A lady reported what a VM install did, or rather failed to do, and I got exactly the same result. Having given that hyperlink, I now see a July edition has been released, so I am going to take another look and see if a bare metal install is workable. The Store in live mode of the November 2023 release was impressive, as was the walls and blur effect.
Actually ignore that link as it is for an April 2022 edition and that release had issues. The project has gone dead since the 2023 release.
Here is the GitHub page of issues which have never been responded to:
Well.. Both. I need to install a home server... But just in general.
I tried to host my own server a few years back, huge headache and it never worked. Especially when using external storage. Most people like me cant do that. But there IS a market for people that value privacy. But it would have to be very straightforward to set up.
Because not everyone likes Apple's software? If Zorin started copying Apple, it'd shoot down to the very bottom of my ranking of linux distros.
Windows also has a much larger and notably less die-hard userbase, so it stands to reason there will be more Windows users looking to convert than Apple users, so copying Apple would be very anti-user.
If you want an OS that looks like Mac but is actually Linux based, a respin of MX Linux was recently released. I have never been a fan of Apple but I have recently started working with our online broadcast team for our church. Everything they use is Mac. So I needed to get familiar with how Mac looked and worked. It took a while but I finally found a Linux version that is close. It's called MX Linux Budgie Remix. You can try it out and see what you think. It installed easily and quickly found my wifi and even my network printer. Here's the link:
https://forum.mxlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=81305
Because not everyone likes Apple's software? If Zorin started copying Apple, it'd shoot down to the very bottom of my ranking of linux distros.
I'm a gamer and Nobara, for whatever reason, hates my computer. The next gaming-focused distro to try is Garuda. It lasted five minutes because of how much they'd customized the UI to be Mac-like. As you said, it'd alienate at least as many people as it'd pick up, if not more. If Zorin 18 were announced as heavily Mac-like, I'd probably start packing my bags the same day. I really appreciate Zorin Appearance for providing such broad options on UI.
Yeah, its good that they provide a windows AND mac like look in pro. I feel like linux is closer to macos than windows is to linux, so i chose the mac look, (even though i don't and habe never owned a Mac.
I feel like linux is closer to macos
It's kind of the other way around. From the very beginning, in the 80s, "classic" Mac OS was its own thing entirely, through Mac OS 9. In 1999, they released OSX, which was a switch to a *nix operating system. Linux had its first release in 1991, years before. In any case, that's kind of semantics: you're right that Linux and Mac OSX are much more related than Linux and Microsoft Windows.
Apple’s software or operating system?
I am new in this forum, since many years user of Linux, macOS and WinOS. Worked at different companies and different OSs.
Meanwhile Windows and macOS as well as Linux have great looking UIs. The software you’re using is another story.
Finally there are more similarities in Linux and macOS compared with Windows.
Yes.
But also, their ethos and everything else. OP didn't specifically state copying Apple's UI, they wanted to copy everything except having decent respect for user privacy. My response was in line with that.
Fully agree with you! 