XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy, comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
From: nuh-uh@nope.com
On 2026-01-12 11:08, Joel W. Crump wrote:
> On 1/12/26 1:40 PM, Alan wrote:
>> On 2026-01-12 10:20, vallor wrote:
>>> At Mon, 12 Jan 2026 10:06:21 -0800, Alan wrote:
>>>> On 2026-01-12 09:58, CrudeSausage wrote:
>>>>> On Mon, 12 Jan 2026 17:28:30 +0000, vallor wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> < snip >
>>>>>
>>>>>>> If you're looking for the customizations I've done on my desktop,
>>>>>>> I'll show you the few I've done to Pop_OS! which, by default,
>>>>>>> presents me with most of what I want out of a desktop experience.
>>>>>>> Here is a screenshot of what I use though:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 1) The dock is on the left since there is more real estate
>>>>>>> horizontally than vertically.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 2) Since the workspace and applications options are already
>>>>>>> available in the panel, I've removed them from the dock entirely.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 3) I prefer the Kora icons to the default Cosmic ones, so that is
>>>>>>> what I'm using there.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 4) I find that the dock looks better rounded rather than squared,
>>>>>>> so I set it up that way.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 5) I find that the dock and panel look best when their opacity is
>>>>>>> no more than 50%.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Those are five customizations I can do without requiring a
>>>>>>> third-party, paid application. I could do more if I really wanted
>>>>>>> to, but I'm not wild with those things either.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> According to Alan, this isn't customization.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Meanwhile, he hasn't said how he's customized his Mac.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I smell a rat.
>>>>>
>>>>> That's because Alan knows very well that Apple doesn't allow you to
>>>>> do much to deviate from the standard MacOS desktop. You can change
>>>>> the wallpaper, you can move the dock and you can choose which of
>>>>> their widgets are interesting to you. That's about it. Anything
>>>>> more than that would probably cause Apple to excommunicate you and
>>>>> for Apple users themselves to start doing the unfathomable:
>>>>> thinking for themselves.
>>>>>
>>>>> Either way, there is no communicating with Alan. If you need to
>>>>> know what he thinks about something, just create a script which
>>>>> automatically delivers the Apple-endorsed response.
>>>>
>>>> Of the 5 things you listed, I can do most of them.
>>>>
>>>> I can reposition the Dock.
>>>>
>>>> I can remove elements from the Dock.
>>>>
>>>> I can use different icons.
>>>>
>>>> The two I can't do are PURELY cosmetic.
>>>
>>> So? Who says customizations have to be anything
>>> _but_ cosmetic?
>>
>> No one. But it shows how trivial this business of "I can customize,
>> and you can't, neener-neener!" really is.
>>
>>> CS casually made changes to his desktop that he
>>> didn't even have to think about...at least one of which
>>> is impossible on a Mac.
>>
>> You KNOW it's impossible do, you?
>>
>> Checked, have you?
>>
>>> And your initial reaction to his post was to laugh and mock,
>>> because you think Cosmic looks like MacOS.
>>
>> You don't find it funny that someone with such animus to macOS chooses
>> to use an OS that strongly resembles it?
>>
>>> How many Unix desktops have you seen? (Besides MacOS,
>>> that is...)
>
>
> You clearly have a strange need to see Apple imitated, despite how
> uncommon it actually is. They led with smartphones, but never with
> desktops.
>
I have no need like that all.
I'm simply amused that the guy who seems to hate Apple so much uses a
flavour of Linux that looks so much like it. :-)
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