<story><title>BSD-XFCE installs macOS-like XFCE enviroment on FreeBSD</title><url>https://github.com/Wamphyre/BSD-XFCE</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sandreas</author><text>Although I honor this huge effort - just looking like macOS does not mean it is macOS-Like. I hate to say this, but macOS is way more than just its look. Most people miss that. I doubt that these FreeBSD changes will contain the following macOS-Like features:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  - The best touchpad expierience including kinetic &amp;#x2F; inertial scrolling, rubberbanding,etc.
  - Apps like Mail and Preview with its simple but yet powerful set of features
  - Fast and stable Wifi
  - Battery life
  - Excellent Typography
  - System wide function keys (play, pause, volume up, etc.) that work everywhere
  - Quick look
  - Air drop
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
I recently switched from macOS to Fedora 36 and will keep using it, because it is awesome, but the things I miss the most are listed above :-) But prefer freedom over macOS-Like, so kudos for posting this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rollcat</author><text>Let me add a few:&lt;p&gt;- Handover (shared clipboard between devices, continuing tasks on another device)&lt;p&gt;- AirPlay (both casting and playback control)&lt;p&gt;- Apps are just self-contained, launchable directories you can copy around, no separate installation step&lt;p&gt;- Application-centric (as opposed to window-centric) task management&lt;p&gt;- Tiny things like &amp;lt;Cmd-tab&amp;gt;, keep holding Cmd, click the app to switch to&lt;p&gt;- Even tinier things, like hold space to move the selection rectangle in the screenshot tool&lt;p&gt;- Extremely consistent support for all basic keyboard shortcuts like &amp;lt;Cmd-q&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;Cmd-w&amp;gt;, &amp;lt;Cmd-,&amp;gt;, etc, going back all the way to the classic Mac OS&lt;p&gt;- AppleScript, Shortcuts, (Automator)&lt;p&gt;- Color management&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s these things I miss on Linux and (Open)BSD the most, not the GUI theme. I actually think the current design (starting with Big Sur) is a huge step backward for accessibility and usability, fortunately this project doesn&amp;#x27;t blindly copy it.</text></comment>
<story><title>BSD-XFCE installs macOS-like XFCE enviroment on FreeBSD</title><url>https://github.com/Wamphyre/BSD-XFCE</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sandreas</author><text>Although I honor this huge effort - just looking like macOS does not mean it is macOS-Like. I hate to say this, but macOS is way more than just its look. Most people miss that. I doubt that these FreeBSD changes will contain the following macOS-Like features:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  - The best touchpad expierience including kinetic &amp;#x2F; inertial scrolling, rubberbanding,etc.
  - Apps like Mail and Preview with its simple but yet powerful set of features
  - Fast and stable Wifi
  - Battery life
  - Excellent Typography
  - System wide function keys (play, pause, volume up, etc.) that work everywhere
  - Quick look
  - Air drop
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
I recently switched from macOS to Fedora 36 and will keep using it, because it is awesome, but the things I miss the most are listed above :-) But prefer freedom over macOS-Like, so kudos for posting this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kitsunesoba</author><text>Geary had promise as a sort of FOSS Mail.app counterpart but last I knew development on it had stalled. In theory Thunderbird could fill that need but it’s always felt kinda cludgy and odd in comparison.</text></comment>