On Sat, 2006-06-10 at 07:27 +0100, MJ Ray wrote:
It's been possible for a long time. Greetings from GNUstep, which shares a common ancestor with OSX. www.gnustep.org
Foundations aside, I think Gnome now has more in common with OSX in terms of look and feel than gnustep, even down to some of the administration panels. In fact with Gnome if you installed the compiz Dock plugin, put a quicklaunch icon for the hard drive in the top right of the screen that lead to an applications folder containing symlinks to some whatever software you want to run. Then you have created a user environment that any Mac head would instantly find their way around (although not necessarily administer)
OSX is considered easy to use because as long as you stay within the confines of what Apple intended you to do with it, then it is fairly easy. However stray too far outside those or start wanting too do something a little unusual and it is actually harder work than Linux. However for the majority of users this would be considered a easy to use OS because they will never be in that situation.