suggestions welcome
1 point
- proprietary, has no reason to be
- defaults to dark theme
- does not follow OS's UI theme1
- uses custom notification system
- "written in Rust" advertised as a feature2
- "built with Nix" advertised as feature3
- subscription pricing model
- is a mobile application first released within the last five years
2 points
- only has dark theme
- has a light theme but it's really horrible
- custom notification system that ignores OS's do-not-disturb setting
- uses seperate, bespoke updater application
- Apple product
- Google product
- contains advertisements for unrelated products or services
3 points
- uses Chromium/Electron/Tauri
- Microsoft product
- has no mechanism for automatic updates4
- installs updates without consent/confirmation
- came with another unrelated piece of software
scoring some applications
- Google Chrome: six points, reflects ability to fool users into thinking it's not dogshit
- Discord: 15 points! accurately reflects how obviously dogshit it is
- VS Code: nine points, accurately reflects that the software is kinda dogshit but not that bad
- Steam: 19 points! unfortunately, it doesn't matter because it's basically completely unavoidable if you want to play games on a PC.
- Firefox: two points, good job guys :3
- LibreOffice: zero! goose egg! 🥳
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Qt applications exempt, as long as they still property use light/dark themes
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not to say that Rust itself is dogshit5, but you'd have to be in pretty dire straits to advertise the language used to build the application as a feature
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see 2, s/Rust/NixOS, s/language/operating system
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applications that don't really need to update exempt
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for now, at least. some of you may already know how I feel about Rust.
