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Surprising or not but this is the issue of user perception. If grandma wants to run her old windows programs on the Ipad and it isn't available on the appstore,
by type0 6y ago
Surprising or not but this is the issue of user perception. If grandma wants to run her old windows programs on the Ipad and it isn't available on the appstore, why cant she just put them on the usb stick and install as she done with her last device: tablet-laptop? These questions do come up from technology naive people.
In the same vein the distinction between GUI and cli isn't in capabilities but in user mindset. Just because you can bridge things with dmenu on your linux machine doesn't mean it should be default. All kinds of edge cases will inevitably emerge whether you like it or not so the user needs to do an informed decision, so don't force your own strange preferences when designing application. In the linux world, look at GNOME, they implement very opinionated changes and test those on they peers. GNOME is getting "better" for some power users and becomes unusable for the regular normies.
- nitrogen 6y agoGNOME is getting "better" for some power users and becomes unusable for the regular normies. My decade long perception was that GNOME was changing to target normal users at the expense of power users. It appears they are failing both ways?
- itskwanyall 6y agoI don’t have much personal experience with GNOME so I can’t comment on that specifically, but I’ve worked on making a primarily dev-focussed product more friendly to marketers in an attempt to speed up their workflow. The problem was we did that based on out perception of how marketers think of the platform to drive the changes. Long story short, it made the devs more frustrated and it was still too technical for the marketers.
- amiga-workbench 6y agoWith a sufficiently large pile of extensions I'm finding gnome just fine as a power user. It's sadly the only DE where enough attention to detail has been applied to many parts of the UI. Even if I disagree with certain UI choices, they have been executed exceptionally well.