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I'm talking about the System 7/8/9 days of macOS. I really like the aesthetic and workflow in the older macOS versions (call me a masochist) and I'm hoping if someone knows of something that already exists. I know there are plenty of skins/themes that hearken back to Windows 95/98, but most of what you find online when you look for "Linux like macOS 9" is things that make it look like modern macOS.

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[–] 2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

isn't that supposed to be based on nextstep which is also what osx is based on?

[–] 2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 day ago

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.