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Re:Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chr... by shadowgovt on Sunday June 14, 2020 @11:18AM (#23518289)
GNU did great things for UNIX. It hasn't really demonstrated much utility in the user experience improvement space. The flow there, in general, appears to be that the big, closed source commercial interests devise new approaches for user interface operation and the open source community copies the ones that work.

The only space I can name off the top of my head where my open-source architectures have outstripped Windows and Mac in UX is virtual desktops.

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Re:Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chr... by AsyncAwait on Sunday June 14, 2020 @01:04PM (#23519331)
If you're taking casual computer experience, KDE's still way more customizable than any of the commercial desktop environments out there.

Of course proprietary software has more funding to hire designers and such, but in terms of actual functionality, I'd contest your claim.

If you're talking developer user experience, it's not even a race. The FLOSS ecosystem has a landslide lead here. In fact the whole point of WSL is to try to keep devs on the Windows platform by bringing that experience to Windows more directly.

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Re:Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chr... by zbentley on Monday June 15, 2020 @07:53PM (#23534430)
> If you're taking casual computer experience, KDE's still way more customizable than any of the commercial desktop environments out there

Customizability is orthogonal with out-of-the box UX, the original axis of comparison here. In fact, the two are often at odds.

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