Re:Linux Sucks 2020
by imtringued on Friday May 29, 2020 @04:07AM
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I've seen a bunch of videos on Youtube where a Linux user is basically analyzing problems in the UI of common desktop environments for Linux and compares them to how the UX is on other OSs. Not sure if those youtubers are actually developers working on the patches because they also report when something they complained about gets fixed.
I’ve never quite understood the “Linux DEs and GUIs are inconsistent” complaint. I wouldn’t want everything to be GTK because that’s IMO not a great GUI toolkit.
Re:Linux Sucks 2020
by Normal_gaussian on Friday May 29, 2020 @07:43AM
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I use a pretty default i3wm/i3bar/dmenu setup as my 'de'. The best things about it is its not like the other GUIs.
It has no discoverability, and its small and "hard" to see. Which is great, because I know it backwards and would like to look at other things.
I don't know Krita, and it requires a lot of focus. Boy am I glad its not like my de.
Re:Linux Sucks 2020
by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Friday May 29, 2020 @09:16AM
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Yeah, I mean, who would want their environment to function consistently?
That sounds quite interesting, do you recall what any of those videos are called or who uploaded them?
Re:Linux Sucks 2020
by Nullabillity on Friday May 29, 2020 @06:55AM
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Tantacrul did one on MuseScore[0] (a music composing program), and ended up getting hired as their head of design[1].
[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hZxo96x48A
[1]: Mentioned in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-3wEC6Fj_8, but don't have the exact timestamp
Simplified example: way too many desktop environments, why do we need so many half-arsed ones?
Half an hour later: woo, we can choose which desktop experience fits our needs the best, who else can do that?
I've followed it for like two or three years and then got tired of the format.