true! but the thing is: it's not just foss software. it is pretty much all software. we are all just used to the stuff that everyone uses, everyone knows how to use windows, how chrome works, how you use powerpoint etc. but we are literally just used to it so we do not even notice that it sucks. i notice this a lot for stuff like windows because i have literally never had a computer with windows and without linux on it in my whole life and do not use windows that much, and a lot of people just ask whats so bad about obvious flaws because theyre just used to it! another great example are people who do not really use PCs. they struggle with foss software, but they also struggle with the non-foss alternatives! they are not used to both!
ui/ux is shit everywhere, it is just a matter of getting used to it
Y'all seen that internal Microsoft email? The one where billg tried to download Microsoft Moviemaker and experienced the entire slew of Microsoft's institutional UI failures across website and Windows? That email was sent on today, January 15, 2003. By now it's 16 January for many of you, but guess what! That's the 16th anniversary of when this email was made public as evidence in an antitrust lawsuit.
Bitrot has made the full text somewhat difficult to obtain. Read it if you haven't before. Spoiler: Bill never gets the thing installed.
So they told me that using the download page to download something was not something they anticipated.
Classic.
