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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 ", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Omarchy: Any User Process Can Escalate to Root"}, {"id": 747898385, "item_id": 46743649, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46743649", "by": "FrostViper8", "date": "2026-01-24", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "As I said I install dash to dock and appindicator icons.", "excerpt": "> Installing extensions is not customisability. It is code patching on the fly and it breaks when the desktop gets upgraded. This is nonsense. 1) It changes how it works to how I prefer it, so that is customising it. 2) I've used the same extensions for ages. Nothing ever broken. 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