"helloSystem is a desktop system for creators with a focus on simplicity, elegance, and usability. Its design follows the “Less, but better” philosophy. It is intended as a system for “mere mortals”, welcoming to switchers from the Mac."
Sounds like I'm somewhere near the target audience if you ask me.
I think I am kind of exactly the target group.
Why is "why is half of the screenshot used as my first encounter with this system in a different language from the rest" a disrespectful question?
Because you value free software. That's the only reason.
It's a very compelling reason for many people. If it's not compelling for you, that's ok.
Seems to me you're an Adobe user more than a Mac user, and there's nothing wrong with that. Not every project needs to target you.
Now Windows reputation has suffered mightily with bundled ads, version churn (also impacts Mac yet with limited hardware the impact is lessened), and major swings in UI changes (often regressing).
It almost feels like Apple and Microsoft are slowly trading positions, whilst Mac retains a limited hardware set; making things easier for them. Interesting to see how Apple's shift to services ends up, will they become as obnoxious as Microsoft?
I would think the bigger concern is all the telemetry.
We write software in C#, most employees still use VisualStudio, we still have some legacy code in .NET Framework (everything else is netcore). It’s a 20 years old company.
So that’s the typical windows shop but still we are migrating to macOS. That’s how much Windows have become a shit show.
There is a link in the front page text to a much uglier, unprofessional-looking page on Github that has a lengthy answer to that which seems to boil down to "Privacy", if you actually want to try and pitch this to non-programmes then summarize that shit down to a couple of sentences and have a link to a page that goes into more detail that actually has some CSS on it.
My second question is: how well does the Adobe suite run on it? I've been using Illustrator as my main medium for as long as I've been using a Mac, I have zero desire to start fresh in terms of customizing, scripting, and configuring Inkscape.
Typing "adobe" into the search bar of the site returns no results so given the "why you should use this" page I'm gonna assume the answer is "[a twenty minute rant on why you should be using Free Software instead, with a lengthy sidebar on the differences between free, Free, and 'free']". Or maybe if you're lucky "well WINE mostly works if you fiddle with it enough".
My third question is: why are the menu names in the front page screenshot in German, with a menu in English?
I'll stick to Apple's fork of FreeBSD, thanks.