If you just want a OSX look and feel I think Deepin Linux and elementary OS were heavily inspired by OSX look and feel. Down below the UI every Linux will behave in a Linux and not OSX way, but that’s a plus.
sztosz
OvermindDL1
Or something like Kubuntu with Latte Dock and some theming. ^.^
You can get the top menu bar as on mac, the dock comes via latte dock, etc…
I’ve not tried deepin or elementary OS’s though I’ve heard of (sociatal? political? something) issues around deepin before. Quick googling shows that deepin uses an old version of KDE with lots of custom stuff (apparently people remark about how much better latte dock is), and elementary uses Gnome with hacks.
I’d just use Kubuntu with Latte Dock, I can walk you through how to change up the theme as you want, but these articles from a quick google search seem to do it too:
This one uses Cairo Dock instead of Latte Dock, never touched that one so don’t know anything about it (pictures of it look less configureable than latte dock though?):
Here’s how to get a lot of desktop interfaces to look mac’ish (though not as in-depth as the above ones):
https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/make-linux-look-like-macos/
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michallepicki
elementary uses Gnome with hacks
I don’t think it has much in common with Gnome, they have their own window manager (Gala), own “sdk” tools and libraries in Vala, own design and widgets… Yes underneath all apps are using GTK and some apps use gsettings but I think that’s it
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sasajuric
Author of Elixir In Action
It’s a nice coincidence that you created this thread, as I’m just in the middle of setting up my new Linux machine. It’s been 10 years since I got my first mac, and 7 years since I moved completely to macs, and I’m curious to see how will my return to the linux world look like 
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michallepicki
Looks like their Tuxedo OS is just rebranded Ubuntu Budgie. Did you go with that or another option?
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sasajuric
Author of Elixir In Action
joaquinalcerro
Ever consider using Suse Linux / OpenSuse Leap 15?
I know is not as popular as Ubuntu but I selected it because of the way they test and deploy the hole OS using OpenQA (https://openqa.opensuse.org/)
In one line: a better tested OS in my laptop.
Well it’s just how I see it. I might be wrong and I am not saying Ubuntu is bad.
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OvermindDL1
I’d love if you did a review of that one once you use it for a bit! I’ve not used that one before either.
I used to use Suse way back in the day, it was very well managed. Plus it uses KDE if I recall correctly, lol.
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sasajuric
Author of Elixir In Action
It’s been about a month since I switched back to Linux. I summarized a few impressions in this Twitter thread.
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kpanic
Some random thoughts:
Linux user here (debian unstable and ubuntu)
I am using in my current job a mac
So far the mac experience obviously looks somehow polished, however the os sometimes becomes sluggish. Instead speaking about those flat keys on the keyboard. They risk to break instantly. And indeed one of those (CMD) got dirty and stopped to function at some point 
I used in my previous jobs linux at work. worked like a charm except for connecting to a projector safely projectors are the new printers for linux.
Wife is also using ubuntu since years. no complains. no popups, ads or fancy upgrades.
Some apps on macosx (docker, iTerm2, etc) they just interfere with your activity (called also work ;)) by popping up dialogs to ask for upgrade. annoying.
The memory occupied on mac looks way bigger than a linux machine unluckily.
Very weird. Since apple controls hardware and os.
To me it looks like macosx is the new windows with some unix roots. (btw, thanks to brew macosx looks like “almost” normal). However brew is something external to the os.
As a side note, I had to tweak a lot of things to make macosx work as a dev machine. one funny thing was that the ~ sign was an UTF8 character on my machine. lol? I had to debug it.
For me, linux (excluding the fact that debian has almost all free software one command away – hello apt-get) is a better experience compared to a mac for a developer.
But also for non techy ppl!
Peace
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