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All the things you like about the "traditional desktop UI" were once "the latest UI fads (...) attempt[ing] to appease casual users".
by Legion 14y ago
All the things you like about the "traditional desktop UI" were once "the latest UI fads (...) attempt[ing] to appease casual users".
- raverbashing 14y agoTrue But not all fads survive. It's evolution! Example: light pens
- icebraining 14y agoIsn't a fad that survives not a fad, by definition?
- wccrawford 14y agoHe's riffing off the parent's use of the word "fad", where the parent used it in a quote as if someone had once called it a fad, even though it turned out to be something that stayed around.
- xlpz 14y agoI find it quite amusing that so many self-defined "Linux power users" can't use anything that isn't pretty much an exact copy, UX-wise, of Windows 95.
- insertnickname 14y ago"The best UI is the one you know"