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Its also interesting how much of what we consider an "easy to use UI" actually just means "Its what I already know". I have been using linux with gnome for yea
by baroffoos 7y ago
Its also interesting how much of what we consider an "easy to use UI" actually just means "Its what I already know".
I have been using linux with gnome for years and I recently had to use a macbook. I wanted to change the sound settings so I opened the global app search thing and typed "Sound" got nothing so I searched "Audio" still nothing so I tried to find the settings app and tried "Settings" still nothing until I remembered the settings app is called "Preferences"
The OSX UI is not hard to use, its just not the same as what I had been using for years so even simple interactions seem difficult.
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- sedachv 7y agoJef Raskin wrote about this 25 years ago: https://www.asktog.com/papers/raskinintuit.html https://www.asktog.com/papers/raskinintuit.html
- paol 7y agoThank you for posting that, its nice to see an "authority" validating something that I've often felt the need to point out: people tend to misattribute to ease of use what is merely familiarity.
- asdff 7y agoHow long ago did you try this? I just tested and searching for "sound" gets me the system preferences sound window. Searching "settings" returns system preferences. There was a time where apple and windows both seemed pretty stubborn with their semantics (trash vs. recycle bin, both do the same thing, solely for brand identity), but I think that must have died a couple versions ago.
- baroffoos 7y agoThis was last week but I haven't used this macbook since about 2017 so its quite out of date.