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Re:I switched from macOS to Linux after 15 years of Apple by wooptoo on Friday August 27, 2021 @05:39AM (#28325849)
> On the desktop 90% of the projects are second rate clones of commercial software with a weird GUI, poorer features, and added user hostility.

A lot of free/open-source software is created by a single developer in their spare time, because they want an open & functional version of their favourite commercial app.

The weird GUI is what you get when you can't devote unlimited man-hours and millions of $ to the project.

A lot of good has come from the Linux and open-source movement, let's not pretend otherwise.

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Re:I switched from macOS to Linux after 15 years of Apple by vetinari on Friday August 27, 2021 @06:05AM (#28325983)
> The weird GUI is what you get when you can't devote unlimited man-hours and millions of $ to the project.

I will take weird or unpolished GUI over polished, dark patterns, thank you very much.

Because that's the choice that we really make.

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Re:I switched from macOS to Linux after 15 years of Apple by cglace on Friday August 27, 2021 @07:15AM (#28326351)
I didn’t know the opposite of terrible UI is dark pattern.
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Re:I switched from macOS to Linux after 15 years of Apple by vetinari on Friday August 27, 2021 @08:35AM (#28327000)
It isn't, just like opposite of free software is not great UI. Despite that, free software and terrible UI gets conflated; so what's just one more conflation, right?
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Re:I switched from macOS to Linux after 15 years of Apple by cglace on Friday August 27, 2021 @10:00AM (#28327890)
"Despite that, free software and terrible UI gets conflated"

I wonder why people would conflate those two things? Sure, not all free desktop software is bad, but enough of it is that people prefer the commercial alternatives.

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Re:I switched from macOS to Linux after 15 years of Apple by vetinari on Friday August 27, 2021 @03:34PM (#28332079)
Replace free with proprietary, commercial with free, bad with dark patterns and that will be just as true as your version.
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Re:I switched from macOS to Linux after 15 years of Apple by cglace on Tuesday August 31, 2021 @01:17AM (#28364191)
“Replace free with proprietary, commercial with free, bad with dark patterns and that will be just as true as your version.”

So more people use free desktop software? Hmmm

Also, that is the most confusing statement I have ever read.

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