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In my experience It depends on the kind of software you're talking about. If you mean especially GUI-heavy apps like Office/Libre Office Gimp/Photoshop FreeCAD/
by Roark66 3y ago
In my experience It depends on the kind of software you're talking about. If you mean especially GUI-heavy apps like Office/Libre Office Gimp/Photoshop FreeCAD/AnyCommercialCAD KiCAD/Altium yes your criticisms are valid. Mostly for the reasons others have said already.
However, consider other types of software with minimal gui for example Apache-Nginx/IIS, VisualBasic/Python, command line tools like awk, sed, shells like bash vs cmd. Lots of stuff.
It is a fact of life an Open Source model works better when no GUI is involved. Why? Because many people including myself find it mind numbingly boring and difficult at the same time to come up with a good, usable gui.
I bet there are at least 3 startups in the dark somewhere in the world working about AI generated UIs right now. If they succeeded that might be the thing OS software needs to be better.
- jwells89 3y agoIt’s a bit tangential, but I find that how much I enjoy designing UIs depends a lot on the UI toolkit I’m using. With many, it’s as boring as you say, but there are a handful which have a large repertoire of capable, flexible widgets and designer program that makes the process something of a joy. AppKit on macOS is like this. Qt Widgets has a lot of the right ingredients but somehow misses the mark.