• Melllvar
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    01 year ago

    The Unix principles generally don’t translate well to interactive graphical interfaces.

    • @heeplr@feddit.de
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      01 year ago

      Which principle exactly? Early motif UIs still are in use in a lot of nieche applications.

      Not saying UI design is easy or FOSS apps shine with excellent GUIs, but they work for their users and complaining doesn’t help.

      My point is: Either improve the UI or pay someone to improve it. Or at least make a suggestion to the devs but don’t blame linux people for not providing a free product perfectly adapted to your personal habits.

        • @heeplr@feddit.de
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          1 year ago

          I was talking about all *nix-typical principles. e.g. that everything should integrate into batched jobs. Modularity. Human readable error messages. Transparent logging. Integrated software repositories & version control, man pages. file permissions & user groups. etc.

          Stuff that seems strange and unnecessary complex for new users, who don’t know how to use stuff.