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Accessible for power users, yes. Not the average person. Linux is great and an incredible testament to the power of open source. But my god, it’s made by nerd
by dlivingston 5y ago
Accessible for power users, yes. Not the average person.
Linux is great and an incredible testament to the power of open source.
But my god, it’s made by nerds, for nerds - which is great for folks like us, but there is absolutely no taste or consistency in UI/UX in any of the distros I’ve seen.
ElementaryOS is perhaps the prettiest Linux distro, yet it is so much uglier than even the perennial virtual corporate suit, Windows.
I just want an OSS Linux distro that’s beautiful, intuitive, and deeply customizable when I want to put on my power user hat. Is that too much to ask?
- walteweiss 5y agoI was in the same boat, as a Mac user. The thing you need to understand is that the beauty is not in the visual aesthetics of the GUI, but in other things. ‘It’s not how it looks like, it’s good it works’ is the phrase we believe Steve Jobs kept saying. Well, here it is. Linux is very ugly from the beautiful UI standpoint. But at some point you may realize you just don’t need any interface, and that’s where the beauty starts.