<html><head><style>body{font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px}</style></head><body><div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; ">On October 18, 2020 at 07:42:39, Contact VPV via Ale (<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org">ale@ale.org</a>) wrote:</div> <div><blockquote type="cite" class="clean_bq" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span><div><div></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div>All,</div><div><br></div><div>I have been using Linux Mint with Cinnamon Desktop for the past few years as my daily driver. I am able to get most of the things. But there are a few times the Cinnamon Desktop just freezes and crashes while I am in the middle of some work. This kind of throws me off. I have tried most of the tricks on the LM forums and nothing leads me to a proper solution.</div><div><br></div><div>Now that, I am thinking of switching to some simple and clean desktop that does not crash on me. I had to use Mac for my work, so I will be switching between my Mac and Linux on a daily basis. I had customized my Cinnamon to look and behave like Mac and was successful to an extent that I could manage.</div><div><br></div><div>Is there a recommendation for a distro/desktop that would help me? </div></div></div></div></span></blockquote></div><p><br></p><p>Glad I went back in time to the original message instead of just jumping in late on the “use Void” bandwagon…</p><p>Short answer: no.</p><p>Longer answer: there isn’t a comparable desktop environment that is going to “just work.” I ran some flavor of Linux as my primary desktop OS for several years (back when X11 and E16 were still things people used). Around 2004 I decided that I needed a computer that would meet my university’s requirements while keeping me away from Windows — I got a PowerBook. My conclusion, and I maintain it to this day: macOS provides a cohesive GUI without any “gotchas”, along with a real *nix CLI, that Linux is unable to match for a variety of reasons.</p><p>So if you’ve managed to customize a Linux DE to roughly match the Macintosh system you also use, that’s great. But it’s going to be all on you to make that happen. There isn’t a distribution that has this as a focus, and I assert none will ever exist.</p><div></div></body></html>