Gnome 40

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Atril

You should give Mate a try then [1]. It's essentially Gnome 2 but actively maintained.<p>[1] <a href="https://mate-desktop.org/" rel="nofollow">https://mate-desktop.org/</a>.

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Inkscape

Gnome is just one part of the story - the VM was always decent looking but the apps and the ecosystem really made it look that way. For example if you look at the controls you got with GTK out of the box in GTK3 era I remember huge paddings, unintuitive UX (the GTK file picker is the worst I've used). Go check out an app like <a href="https://inkscape.org" rel="nofollow">https://inkscape.org</a> and compare it to something like Illustrator or Gnome to photoshop. The messy jumbled stacks of options with huge icons and paddings instead of being condensed and easy to use - most of it stems from GTK controls being bad.<p>Now this is all with a huge disclaimer that I haven't used a Linux desktop in over 5 years at this point, maybe things got better but I doubt it - I still use Inkscape for example from time to time and Gimp on OSX and putting the non-native issues aside the apps look terrible on their own.

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KDE neon

Maybe you might break the 5 yrs gap with KDE Neon? :)<p><a href="https://neon.kde.org/" rel="nofollow">https://neon.kde.org/</a>.

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elementary OS

Have a look at elementary OS (<a href="https://elementary.io" rel="nofollow">https://elementary.io</a>), they are much more resembling MacOS.

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