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Pantheon desktop from elementaryOS.
You can use it on their distro (Ubuntu based with lots of curated apps) or on its own (you can still get access to their curated apps, just not in the store)
EDIT: Sorry, I misunderstood. You want classic Mac. I'd say get Xfce4 and theme it yourself then.
Here's an example: https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/4l9tlp/xfce_another_nine_based_os_9_based_theme/
Thanks!
Can't believe I didn't find those, guess I should have searched for platinum. Guess I'm off installing xfce.
But how do you put the menu bar in the panel? I don't see any such xfce plugin anywhere, neither you're mentioning it. That's the stickiest point trying to emulate Mac.
vala panel appmenu could be a option.
It's in the debian repos, i installed it, but it doesn't show up in the xfce applet list. As for the gtk/wm themes linked abov, they're not downloadable apparently from the website they're linked.
Hmm, i can’t help you with debian. I had vala app menu working with Xfce also in the past, but don’t use it anymore.
About 25 years ago, I used something called mlvwm which was designed to look like System 7.
I ran this on a 486 and later on a Duron system with something called "bochs" that let me run a full System 7 in a container.
A quick search shows that it is still around and has been forked by a couple of people.
I found this post, but it refers to System 6: https://hexbear.net/post/786438
I did a quick search on r/unixporn (I just put in "System N") and found several posts, mostly about System 6 and System 9. Usually they post the links to the dotfiles in the comments. Good luck.
By the way, I don't think you'll find a specific distribution or desktop for what you want. You'll have to customize several things separately, look for documentation, dotfiles, etc.
If someone could port AUX's UI, that would be perfect.
And as a fellow System 6/7 fan, it's love, not masochistim. Long live the spatial Finder!
Look into GNUstep and related projects maybe? I’m not sure how close it is to pre-NS Mac (that was OS X iirc?) but it might be close enough.
isn't that supposed to be based on nextstep which is also what osx is based on?
It’s a free reimplementation of the NeXTSTEP API (and now the successor Cocoa in macOS). So kind of what Linux is to real UNIX.
I’d love a “dark” classic Mac theme