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Maybe having terrible UX is starting to look like a fundamental flaw here? I know that UX sounds like something that should be “polishable”, but at this moment
by zoul 4y ago
Maybe having terrible UX is starting to look like a fundamental flaw here? I know that UX sounds like something that should be “polishable”, but at this moment I have been hearing for years about Nix being great in principle but not that great in everyday practice. (Cf. Linux on desktop…)
- colordrops 4y agoI'm not convinced that Nix isn't polishable. Because the language is declarative, and can be pure if using flakes, it could readily be extended with simple tooling and UI configuration that make it look and feel like other distros, with the more low level constructs still available to advanced users. It's still in a phase where most users are power enthusiasts, so polish hasn't been priority #1, but someone will come along and make a more friendly wrapper one day.
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- NateEag 4y ago> It's still in a phase where most users are power enthusiasts, so polish hasn't been priority #1, but someone will come along and make a more friendly wrapper one day. As a diehard Emacser, Emacs has been waiting about thirty years for someone to make it a prettier wrapper. It's possible to be so power-user-friendly that in practice no one wants to make it end-user friendly.
- sph 4y agoIn my experience UX and polish is something a project needs to start with. You don't polish after the fact, because software is never completed. Saying "we'll improve documentation eventually" often means "we will never improve documentation"