pearOS is a Linux that falls rather close to the Apple tree

"Pear Linux was a French distro by David Tavares, based on Ubuntu and GNOME but heavily themed with custom fonts, icons, menu layouts, and more, all intended to make it visually resemble Apple's Mac OS X as closely as possible. As DistroWatch records, it went through some seven releases between 2011 and 2013, before Tavares announced that an unnamed company had bought it, and the distro vanished. Some contemporary reviews of PearOS 3.0 (2012), PearOS 7.0, and PearOS 8.0 (both 2013) - especially their screenshots - will give you an idea of how well it accomplished that. The idea has enduring appeal. After it disappeared, there were attempts to revive it, including Pearl Linux and Clementine OS, both in 2014, but neither got far."

"Over a decade later, a young Romanian developer called Alexandru Balan has released a new pearOS distro, rebuilt on a new basis of Arch Linux and the latest KDE Plasma 6.5.4. The release announcement calls this basis NiceC0re, and as the screenshots there show, this pearOS is styled to look like this year's macOS 26 "Tahoe.""

"This is more than just a custom theme slapped onto a default KDE Plasma setup. There's a working global menu bar, with a pear menu in place of an apple menu at top left. This contains a single-column Settings app, which resembles the iOS style Settings app of macOS 13 Ventura and above. Within is an optimistic array of macOS-like features, many of which, such as Focus Mode, don't open and instead display: Feature not available This feature is currently not available. Please check back later for updates. There's a Pear Piri option (in place of Siri) with a Pear Intelligence feature, the desktop is called "Pinder," there's"

Pear Linux originated as a French distribution by David Tavares, based on Ubuntu and GNOME, with heavy theming to resemble macOS. It produced several releases between 2011 and 2013 before being sold and discontinued, and revival attempts in 2014 did not succeed. A new pearOS by Romanian developer Alexandru Balan is built on an Arch Linux base with KDE Plasma 6.5.4 and a NiceC0re foundation, styled after macOS 26 "Tahoe." The distribution provides a global menu bar, a pear menu replacing the apple menu, a single-column Settings app, and macOS-like features including Pear Piri and Pear Intelligence.

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