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Many years ago I used to look forward to every new software release. That was when software got better with each version. Nowadays things just get worse with ea
by 127361 3y ago
Many years ago I used to look forward to every new software release. That was when software got better with each version. Nowadays things just get worse with each release, when it comes to user-interfaces and desktop apps. Time to move on to something else.
- subtra3t 3y agoI wouldn't say that things necessarily get worse with each update. I think new features get gradually added which make the software less accessible and/or harder to learn for beginners and/or impact performance. I know, all of the things I said can be said to be the worsening of the software. But what many people think when they read that sentence is that just the simple act of updating software is detrimental to the user's needs. Which I don't think is true all the time.
- 127361 3y agoThe modern design trends, removal of color from the user interface, increasing the amount of white space everywhere. And the gradual dumbing down of everything. I think those are each a real step back, compared to the old versions. So it slowly kept getting worse, bit by bit, until we got to where we are now.
- tharne 3y ago> Nowadays things just get worse with each release, when it comes to user-interfaces and desktop apps. This is spot on and it makes me sad. We have hardware and programming languages available to us that people could only dream of 30 years ago and so much of the software we produce with it is objectively worse. I don't think Wayland (or X) is really salvageable at this point.