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[–] peterhorvath@mastodon.de 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

@wltr @canthangmightstain Main obstacle before Linux was the stupidity, 30 years ago exactly like today.

[–] wltr@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 5 days ago

Also, it doesn’t try to be friendly. There are cases when it’s fucking broken in so many ways, I just hate the devs sometimes. Perhaps, that’s the reason I prefer the tools to be as minimal as possible. I use Arch with Sway wm and most of my apps are TUI or very minimal. I tried KDE, it’s great, but there are some idiosyncrasies in the very Fedora Kinoite. That’s their flagship distro, and some things are straight broken with the Discover app. I won’t provide a proper bug report here right now (it’s unnecessary anyway), but I remember me thinking ‘the fuck? Didn’t you test the app with the atomic distro you advertise? How would a normie who knows nothing of Linux would even understand how to make it work?’

For some weird reason, there are countless of things like that. I tolerate them mostly, but a normie would easily panic upon facing a thing like that. I was like that myself once. That’s why I’d prefer these interfaces to become better. They’re mostly bad in many cases. Maybe the reason is some lonely developer in Nebraska, who made some tiny tool for fun, and a corporation has no resources of making it better, right?