A few years ago, the OS X Aqua look was hot, and I belonged to a community of users which modified their Windows (and sometimes Linux) desktops to look like Apple’s new OS. We had people writing applications to clone OS X features (some which Apple shut down), some writing themes, others drawing up new icons. Recently, I decided I was growing tired of the default Ubuntu desktop so I figured I’d start modifying it, and I came upon Lauri Taimila’s site which has a very handy guide to making Ubuntu look like OS X. It’s not exact, and some of the links in the guide seem to have gone missing, but overall, I’m quite happy with the conversion, and it was fairly easy to do. In the end, you’ll have much of the eye candy available to Mac users and your desktop will look a whole lot better than all that brown.