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Oh, I get it now. I guess I agree with that, then. Though before you reach "perfect, ideal usability", I feel like it's still subjective. Linux is currently mor

by palata 9mo ago

Oh, I get it now. I guess I agree with that, then. Though before you reach "perfect, ideal usability", I feel like it's still subjective. Linux is currently more usable to me than Windows or macOS. Also I think we could debate on the "footguns" idea. Many people will say "we should not allow the user to do that because it is a footgun" for many things that I barely consider "advanced usage" and that I actually want. Does making it simpler at the cost of removing possibilities count as making it more usable, or less?

nilslindemann 9mo ago
Right you are. Making it "simpler" at the cost of removing possibilities is not usability. That is dictatorship disguising itself as a service to the alleged "uneducated user". The Gnome people do / have done that, the result is an operating system which is nearly unusable. Usability is not some developer deciding which tools to have and which tools not to have, usability is allowing the users to choose but give pleasant defaults, so that the user can also choose not to choose.