lunar_rover

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by lunar_rover 6mo ago
I second this. To me the styling looks like tags and conveys the opposite meaning.
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by lunar_rover 6mo ago
Metro was created partly to run smooothly on cheap Atom tablets and Windows Phones. Then Microsoft shifted their focus elsewhere and iOS 7/OS X Yosemite happened so they have all the reasons to stay flat. Updated apps look fine, but th
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by lunar_rover 6mo ago
The problem with things from the Linux world is that they never reached the height of commercial desktops to begin with. If you really enjoy worse Windows XP UX with hamburger menus in recent versions then by all means go ahead, it does fun
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by lunar_rover 7mo ago
California has both vendors and clients that are big enough to warrant immediate compliance. A very measurable chunk of Linux is from corporations, most major advancements are corporate backed in some way.
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by lunar_rover 7mo ago
> Why does Linux not consider the desktop system a priority? No company big enough has decided to heavily invest in Linux desktop for end users yet. The community is composed of techies and they make products for techies. Valve's so
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by lunar_rover 7mo ago
> What else do you want? No alignment issues, menus sorted by professional designers, easier to learn UX like ribbon menus and a lot more. Feel like the design issues stem from it being shaped by existing power users. Familiarity tend to
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by lunar_rover 8mo ago
Intel intentionally ripped ECC out of the sweet spot products to charge premium and unfortunately they succeeded. Pentium G4560 supports ECC, Core i7 10700 doesn't.
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by lunar_rover 8mo ago
> The project don't have much funding to hire a UI/UX designer IMHO. Well this is the point. I was countering the claim that flat UI doesn't require any design talent to look passable.
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by lunar_rover 8mo ago
The beginners are long time workspace and school users who were requesting features already in the product.
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by lunar_rover 8mo ago
A passable looking modern flat UI has a lot behind it, just like skeuomorphism and anything in between. Unless something like https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/5/5.12.0/spectacle-noti... is what you c
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by lunar_rover 8mo ago
It's quality issue from my experience. Nobody ever bothered with polishing the defaults and the "option bombardment" is really bad incoherent design instead of having too many things. I remember spending hours customising the
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by lunar_rover 8mo ago
VSCode needs Electron which is too big IMO. It's also a specialised code editor instead of a general text editor, with features like builtin terminal and traditional menus instead of ribbons.
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by lunar_rover 8mo ago
For how it got so big, after it took over the gaming market initially it's likely network effect in action. Discord is a centralised IM + basic forum with commercial polish. Small communities can't afford site hosting and moderati
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by lunar_rover 8mo ago
"Ideally there should be some way to control the tapzone within CSS." Sounds like a recipe for troubles. Web UI is designed to be scalable, why not scale to platform standard sizes automatically?
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by lunar_rover 8mo ago
Window management mostly works fine, but app design is years behind. KDE Dolphin has a static toolbar like Finder, with its config menu being two lists like some Microsoft toolbars, and the available items list is sorted alphabetically. The
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by lunar_rover 8mo ago
Canonical and Red Hat have been modernising things for a long time, albeit slowly. Most funds went into server components. As for the desktop community… Well, it has a severe lack of professionals.
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by lunar_rover 9mo ago
> what does Windows 11 even do that KDE Plasma 5 wasn't doing a decade ago? How did it take this long to get a tabbed file browser? Management features like application based firewall. Dedicated views in explorer tailored for common
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by lunar_rover 9mo ago
Outlook supports having multiple arbitrary email addresses as well as allowing login from only one of them.
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by lunar_rover 9mo ago
The most common use case for mobile data servers is probably pwned cheap/old phones forming DDoS swarms. Pure P2P over internet is very rare on mobile, no sense not blocking ingress from the perspective of ISPs.
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by lunar_rover 9mo ago
Apple is almost purely customer products, they don't have the resources to compete with the giants in this field. Their image classification happens on-device, in comparison Google Photos does that server side so they already have ML i
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by lunar_rover 9mo ago
You need tons of effort, plenty of experience in the field and a single unified direction to get them done well, and unfortunately the Linus Torvalds of Design currently does not exist. Many underestimate just how much is behind everyday ba
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by lunar_rover 9mo ago
Are we reaching the death of UI design? Feel like we're now at the point where being mid-bad makes something one of the best for many. I miss Windows 7 and OS X.
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by lunar_rover 9mo ago
Vista had the right direction, Windows 7 merely continued on it and it became one of the best operating systems ever. Windows 8 design wasn't bad per se, but they shipped the start screen when it lacks even the most basic features, so
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by lunar_rover 9mo ago
KDE 5 wasn't much better than GNOME 3, it's the main reason behind GNOME default I think. It's only til KDE 6 they got back up on their feet and solved the most egregious design issues, many more still linger. GNOME/Red
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by lunar_rover 9mo ago
Started with Debian 10 GNOME, switched to KDE 5 for its features, went back because of the design issues(KDE 6 is much better). After a few years I switched and settled on Fedora Silverblue. With rpm-ostree automatic updates are so reliable
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by lunar_rover 10mo ago
Always nice to see progress. I hope KDE can have more design people working on it. Things like toolbars are often overlooked despite their importance.
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by lunar_rover 10mo ago
It's not going anywhere without funding, unless you believe early KDE 5 circus UI is somehow the best thing ever. And as the others mentioned the nagging popup is once per year. Both GNOME and KDE are at the state where unmaintained co
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by lunar_rover 10mo ago
For single player gaming, probably. Actual desktops still suffer from significant technical and design issues. Wayland spent a decade to be mostly usable with rough edges, Flatpak sandbox is really rough and most things are designed by amat
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by lunar_rover 10mo ago
I don't see this happening in the foreseeable future. Making competitive phones is even harder than making a desktop, and they aren't investing in Linux desktop itself either, just the components they need. SteamOS works by not ru
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by lunar_rover 10mo ago
Maybe yes but the ulterior motive behind these "solutions" is pretty obvious. Rip anonymity from the internet, one step forward towards Telescreens.

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