lemm.ee

7 points

2 months ago

No it’s not. Good user experience should also allow for extensive customization. There is nothing mutually exclusive about these things.

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AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.world

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2 points

2 months ago

Linux does allow for extensive customization, way more than Wondows or Mac. They just don’t hold your hand to show you how.

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5 points

2 months ago

Yes but it has subpar user experience. But there is no reason you can’t have both, that’s what I’m saying.

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AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.world

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1 point

2 months ago

Subpar how? That statement definitely doesn’t reflect my own experience.

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Two 4k external monitors through a docking station - Why is this seemingly effortless for Windows but basically impossible for Linux?

4 points

2 months ago

I’ve previously posted a few examples:

Is there a way to keep Linux responsive when at ~100% CPU usage?

I also regularly have my window manager crash when inserting my laptop into my docking station. Happens maybe 20% of the time. Sometimes even when it works the display scaling makes things blurry until I reset the scaling from 150% back to 100% and back again, then it’s fine. Add to this a few annoyances with UI, but these are more forgivable.

There’s all kinds of these small problems that compound to just make for a much worse experience. It doesn’t just work but it needs to if it really wants to provide a viable alternative to normal people.

Keep in mind, I am not a “normal person” - I am a professional software engineer and I still find all this stuff super annoying.

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arendjr@programming.dev

2 points

2 months ago

I agree with your examples and it’s certainly true there are plenty of rough edges on Linux. Then again, how many examples are there for things that should “just work” and do on Linux but don’t on Windows? There’s enough that make me not use Windows at all, because it has a subpar user experience. I even used a Macbook for a few years, mainly for work, and there were too many small things that annoyed me about it, so it too had a subpar user experience.

Seems it’s mostly a matter of perspective which issues are more important to you.

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1 point

2 months ago

Then again, how many examples are there for things that should “just work” and do on Linux but don’t on Windows?

Maybe some but much, much fewer. It shouldn’t be surprising - Microsoft has hundreds if not thousands of people hired specifically for creating working UX and design. Linux just can’t compete with that since it’s mostly developers working on it and, again, developers unfortunately make for awful UX designers.

I don’t think external monitors or a responsive UI is a matter of “perspective”. These are things that should just work, always, for everyone.

What are the examples you are thinking of btw?

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