The Decline of Usability (2020)

Re:The Decline of Usability (2020) by quantum_bit on Sunday September 10, 2023 @09:12AM (#37455516)

He's right about Gnome for sure. I used to use Ubuntu 14.04-16.04 from 2014 to 2019 along with macOS all these years.

Although macOS has a lot of problems, I returned to Ubuntu (22.04) since July in a new workplace, and it is horrible. This weird empty horizontal top panel and menus behind the hamburger button are just madness.

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Re:The Decline of Usability (2020) by Condition1952 on Sunday September 10, 2023 @09:41AM (#37455688)

Sorry for being obnoxious but I think it’s worse than madness, it’s cruelty.

The GUI makes you look for basic stuff every time, such as gas Lightning

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Re:The Decline of Usability (2020) by shrubble on Sunday September 10, 2023 @10:18AM (#37455986)

Gnome is pathetically bad at this point. The old desktop CDE is almost as good overall despite its many quirks...

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Re:The Decline of Usability (2020) by ok123456 on Sunday September 10, 2023 @11:22AM (#37456677)

Try PopOS if you want a Linux desktop environment that's not painful to use and looks modern.

Gnome 4 just looks alien. They've abandoned every common desktop metaphor and replaced it with a scuffed android launcher.

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Re:The Decline of Usability (2020) by jwells89 on Sunday September 10, 2023 @11:53AM (#37457021)

I can mostly live with GNOME, but making the top bar mostly composed of empty space and omnipresent while apps try as hard as possible to avoid proper menus makes no sense at all. The space for menus is right there!

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