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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Unix principles generally don't translate well to interactive graphical interfaces.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Which principle exactly? Early motif UIs still are in use in a lot of nieche applications.

Not saying UI design is easy or FOSS apps shine with excellent GUIs, but they work for their users and complaining doesn't help.

My point is: Either improve the UI or pay someone to improve it. Or at least make a suggestion to the devs but don't blame linux people for not providing a free product perfectly adapted to your personal habits.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I was talking about all *nix-typical principles. e.g. that everything should integrate into batched jobs. Modularity. Human readable error messages. Transparent logging. Integrated software repositories & version control, man pages. file permissions & user groups. etc.

Stuff that seems strange and unnecessary complex for new users, who don't know how to use stuff.