> As a developer who mostly wants a Mac-like Linux distro without the associated noise

I'm required to use Ubuntu at work. Coming from Mac, apart from the menu bar at the top, on Gnome, I've been able to customize the keyboard shortcuts, remap the keyboard so that Ctrl works like Cmd, and use extensions like Dash to Dock[1] and themes like Whitesur[2] to replicate something that almost works like a Mac.

The keyboard remapping and customizing keyboard shortcuts were all done within default the default settings app.

The only things missing are some keyboard shortcuts like Ctrl+A/V to move to the beginning and end, and the Ctrl+Shift+C/V behavior on the terminal instead of Cmd+C, which I've just worked around by using VSCode's terminal and configuring it to copy when I press Ctrl+C with some text selected.

[1] https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/307/dash-to-dock/

[2] https://github.com/vinceliuice/WhiteSur-icon-theme

Why doesn't Ubuntu fit the bill? You can even install hombrew on it. Everything works like a mac with no fuss.

Also the only reason I left Linux was due to hardware. Ubuntu was convenient enough.

> In a different way you can see this in this thread where instead of discussing why Omarchy has the bug

There's nothing interesting to discuss. Rootless OCI-compliant containers exist, and Omarchy ignored them. The "convenience" of the solution they chose simultaneously opens an enormous attack surface that the maintainers didn't consider.

This is why I don't believe the "give me a macOS distro" people - even Apple wouldn't do this. If you want a preconfigured Mac-like distro, then you should use GNOME and not a pre-riced desktop with hundreds of dotfiles. You don't have to use Arch either, you can go with a graphical install of Fedora or CachyOS if you want. This will give you a system that you can understand, maintained by people with a minimum standard of quality, that actually resembles the workflow of macOS. There is no Niri or Sway rice that will magically make your system make sense, and this is why I think a lot of the Mac and Windows expats should just use a normal desktop.

> if you encounter a problem with Arch and ask about it

It's probably already documented on Arch wiki or it's a generic Linux issue that has already been solved by someone (that has been my experience with Cachy).