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Re:Six months of crashes in Ubuntu – Alan Pope's blog by gumballindie on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @05:45AM (#37305326)
QA needs to be paid as does programming. I imagine some people have a passion for it and could build automated qa tools around open source products. Say a gui tool that automates clicks on kde or gnome widgets. That would be quite a challenge in itself.

As for ux, open source is not a job. Ux folks are told my product managers to enshitify things on daily basis.

I imagine open source can provide a safe haven form all that and let people run wild beautiful ux and uis. Imagine someone working on the ux of a linux distro aimed at making onboarding of casual users easier.

Imagine a group of people putting together a nice set of guidelines for ui and ux similar to how apple has guidelines.

I think these are two areas where linux (distros) have gaps.

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Re:Six months of crashes in Ubuntu – Alan Pope's blog by zb10948 on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @09:41AM (#37307778)
The simple part is UX people working with UX stuff, such as GTK or QT themes. The hard to impossible part is getting a typical open source UNIX desktop to look and behave as cohesive as Windows or Mac. It's a technology issue and not an asset issue.

As for beautiful UIs QT has made a step forward with the Qt Quick and Qt Designer which allow a more UX workflow for the UI as opposed to old school dialog/form design.

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