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> Have you ever considered that there's a huge amount of users that don't care about "graphics programming and usable UI/UX tooling"? Have you ever considered
by patrec 5y ago
> Have you ever considered that there's a huge amount of users that don't care about "graphics programming and usable UI/UX tooling"?
Have you ever considered that this "huge amount of users" might not care about graphics programming or usable UI/UX tooling, but that >99% of them sure care about either graphics (games, photos, video, digital painting, ...) or usable UIs and UX?
I'm using Linux all the time, and it's quite amazing how terrible anything Desktop related is. Who is going to fix that if the state of graphics and UI/UX tooling is so poor that it either drives away or stymies all the people with relevant skills to drive some improvements?
- broodbucket 5y agoI'm not saying those things aren't important, but they don't warrant the outright dismissal that I was replying to. Linux has an obvious lack of contribution from designers, designers are employed for products, noone is making money selling desktop Linux as a product. Also, most designers aren't tinkering with open source software alternatives in their free time like developers do. I also feel like I'm missing something because my experience on desktop Linux is way better than anything I've ever had on Windows or Mac, meanwhile everyone's saying it's unusable. Can't be easy for the handful of people working on desktop environments and the like.
- blep-arsh 5y agoHonestly, I think the entire situation where we have multiple DEs/toolkits/video drivers/window managers/input methods is unmaintanable. It would be likely unmaintanable even for a well-funded corporation.
- broodbucket 5y agoIf there was a well-funded corporation, they would naturally focus on their stack of choice. I think that's what Red Hat does, focusing most of their desktop stuff on GNOME.