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I can't see much except the most surface level similarities between GNOME and macOS, anyhow. After finally ditching Windows a couple of years back, I now use GNOME daily, and the transition was very natural. Annoyingly, I (have to) have macOS for occasional work stuff, and current macOS is nothing at all like GNOME except they both have dialog windows and popup menus, I guess? Even those don't look or work similarly though, so I'm not sure where this idea that they are a copy came from. Maybe from people who haven't used either one in years?
How in the hell macOS got a reputation for being intuitive, I do not understand; it is the polar opposite of intuitive. GNOME on the other hand, just works exactly as I would expect. It's easy, it's pretty, it's free, and it doesn't have any ads. Installing software is simple for non-technical people, and the home key takes you to the front of a line of text as you'd expect. 🤣
extra rant about macOS
Just about every time I try to do anything remotely productive in macOS it is massively frustrating and makes me literally angry.Just a constant barrage of basic established UI stuff functioning fundamentally differently for no apparent good reason is so god-damned frustrating in that pile of shit OS. I'm a technical user, so I can eventually figure out how to get done whatever I need to eventually, but holy fuck I don't know how regular people manage in that usability abomination.
From the few Mac enthusiasts I keep in touch with, MacOS peaked with Catalina apparently. It's like their version of Windows 7.