Sigh... I wish Linux (and Ubuntu in this case) were better at UI/UX. But still, it's so clearly designed by programmers (not always a bad thing, but sadly more

Sigh... I wish Linux (and Ubuntu in this case) were better at UI/UX. But still, it's so clearly designed by programmers (not always a bad thing, but sadly more often than not). So what's called out here as being good? Well. Subcategories. Average users don't respond well to taxonomy, generally. People are also not good at classifying. So in that example shown, what's the difference between "Arcade" and "Sports"? I've played football games in Arcades. Where should users look? More: "Some items can be bought, others just downloaded" Cool, where can I filter so I only see free apps? Because it's nowhere in the screen shots, and I will bet money that it's the first thing a sizeable percentage of users want to do. Which would be known, had any user testing been done. I hope it was, but I'm guessing not. I could be nit-picky - "Get Software" vs. "Installed Software" - they're not even the same tense. Imperative tense is commonly interpreted by users as causing an action to happen, not a categorisation. I could go on too, merrily burning karma as I go, but all I see when I look at this is how far it has to go, not how great it is. Don't get me wrong, the Apple version is by no means perfect, but I bet it performs better in tests with actual users. Someone needs to get a real UX team together and actually sit down for a real project - not "someone and their favourite futuristic GUI idea for the next version". I would hope that Ubuntu, Red Hat, etc. have the budget to do that, but I see little sign of it.