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r/unixporn is full of horribly impractical and poor UX made by bored people who don't really use their computer for serious work. Just tinkerers. Same crowd who
by hammyhavoc 4y ago
r/unixporn is full of horribly impractical and poor UX made by bored people who don't really use their computer for serious work. Just tinkerers. Same crowd who post elaborate and artistic BuJo stuff up with to-do entries of "Post up new photos of BuJo to Reddit" and "Get some new pens for BuJo" as tasks. Meta crap.
- kastagg 4y agoPeople customizing their own machines to suit their needs is in fact a good UX as long as they enjoy it
- hammyhavoc 4y agoIf you take the doors off of a small city car to make it quicker to get in and out of at the expense of keeping thieves and the weather out, is that good UX?
- smeagull 4y agoYou'd prefer a car that can't be repaired I suppose.
- hammyhavoc 4y agoI use Linux, and my whole family drives classic cars and kit cars. My father ran a garage at one point. My point is that what's on /r/unixporn is predominantly gimmicky nonsense, precious little useful ideas. I'm not blinkered to seeing what's style and what's substance.
- Liquix 4y agoThere are a few tinkerers, a few nice setups, and a lot of younger posters copying things off GitHub for internet points That last part isn't necessarily bad - it gets people excited about running GNU/Linux. "Come for the DE customization, stay for everything else"?