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Re:Mercury OS by unethical_ban on Monday May 01, 2023 @10:05PM (#35782355)
I knew, as soon as this "OS" title didn't lead to a Unix-like general purpose OS, that there would be a lot of shitting on it.

Stay in your lanes, designers! Humanity cannot improve on the taskbar/window configuration for any use case, ever.

Re:Mercury OS by notsosec on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @12:32AM (#35783391)
Maybe designers should research why we are not redesigning things like power sockets, forks, knives, shoelaces every other month.
Re:Mercury OS by unethical_ban on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @12:46AM (#35783459)
One could call the desktop environment (OS frontend) an appliance, and we certainly redesign appliances and scheduling software frequently.
Re:Mercury OS by hexmiles on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @04:46AM (#35784895)
But we are...

I have seen quite a few redesign for fork and knifes for people with disability. It is also very dismissive, just because current sockets works, it does not mean there is no space for improvement for more secure, or reliable socket, and the way we found out if such thing exist is with design! Like this one...