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Re:The Distribution of Users’ Computer Skills: Worse Than Yo... by xmprt on Monday September 23, 2019 @03:26AM (#21046655)
The solution isn't to put things in preference windows either because even smart users will find that cumbersome. There's an interesting pair of videos (if you have some time) that goes over the UI of two competing music scoring software and why one is bad and the other good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKx1wnXClcI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hZxo96x48A

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Re:The Distribution of Users’ Computer Skills: Worse Than Yo... by wirrbel on Monday September 23, 2019 @04:07AM (#21046868)
interesting, of course partially subjective.

I switched to lilypond for typesetting music, I guess it may not be the right option for those who actually compose (I mostly typeset classical pieces to add fingering and obtain a better quality than the cheaply layouted scores that are published today have, unfortunately guitar sheet music is way behind the standards that are set in classical piano music, and just retyping things in lilypond improves the quality by A LOT).

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Re:The Distribution of Users’ Computer Skills: Worse Than Yo... by reacweb on Monday September 23, 2019 @03:38AM (#21046713)
A video to teach me about UI ! It is well known that text is a lot more effective than watching video.
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