• anyhow2503@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Explaining why it’s bad doesn’t really excuse it.

    No, but it does explain it. There’s nothing to excuse in the complete abscence of any promises.

    I also explained why it’s not all bad, so unless you have semi-recently used a desktop environment that tries to be accessible instead of catering to power users, then maybe you wouldn’t dismiss my comment with an unrelated rant about Darktable’s UI and C-nile Unix greybeards reordering their modules every couple minutes. Believe me, I understand the frustration of nearly every app UI being a thoughtless mess, but you’re acting like big-FOSS sold you Linux™ - the Desktop OS under the pretense of it being an accessible interface for even the most casual computer user.

    I can rant all day too about Windows UI design inconsistencies if you want, like the most basic settings being split across 2-3 different generations of UI design in 2-3 separate levels of “basic” to “advanced” which you navigate to by clicking really inconspicuous blue lines of text, which are randomly placed on the bottom of a dialog page or in a sidebar to the right.

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      1 year ago

      My experience is with whatever Gnome-centered desktop ships with Ubuntu. It’s on a headless box that I shut off today for ¤reasons, so I have no clue what it’s called.

      And thank god I am hale and hearty and sighted and a nerd, and it’s not my daily driver, so I have not yet been cut to ribbons on the sharp edges. I do however have a blind partner, whom I know better than to try to impose Linux on. Her daily experience with the shit webdev/mobdev pumps out daily is not good, so yeah, there’s plenty of blame to go around.

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        My experience is with whatever Gnome-centered desktop ships with Ubuntu. It’s on a headless box that I shut off today for ¤reasons, so I have no clue what it’s called.

        I have no idea what Canonical calls it either. It’s basically just a skin that makes Gnome look a bit more shit as far as I can tell.

        Her daily experience with the shit webdev/mobdev pumps out daily is not good

        I thought this was about C-niles, but apparently all mobile and web devs are shit as well. I’m sure that random mobile and web apps are somehow very relevant to Linux DEs being accessible or not, but since you already “know better”, there’s no need to discuss this further really.

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            1 year ago

            behind almost every shit linux design decision, there’s a handful of reply guys with nothing but the time and energy to defend it to the death, to the detriment of everyone involved

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        1 year ago

        Yes, your Windows user experience is super relevant to the point about Linux desktop environments being accessible or not.

        And this whole thread started when I was expressing fear that AI-mania was overwhelming all of Microsoft’s prior first order concerns.

        This discussion was started by me after someone called the Linux desktop accessibility a “fucking embrassment” and I responded very clearly to that specific point. I’m not interested in scoring imaginary points in some misguided attempt to treat comment sections like a team fight for/against the linked article or whatever.

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          1 year ago

          holy fuck shut the fuck up

          as always, the most fucking embarrassing part of linux is the reply guys

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            1 year ago

            in a weird way, they demonstrated my point for me — I’d fucking hate linux if all I could use was a shitty version of my least favorite desktop environment, with no real ability to customize anything or even drop into a vt to fix it when it breaks

            and why in fuck is gnome of all things the layer where any of this shit gets implemented? why (other than the functionality being a bad clone of what windows and macOS have) is a desktop and mouse considered ideal for accessibility? there are a wide array of accessibility needs but the Land of a Thousand Tiling Window Managers has decided that windows but shitty is the only achievable goal

            and fuck me I guess for implying that maybe the distro system could be a great way to have these needs met out of the box? nah distros can only ship yet another shitty identical package manager and your choice of gnome or KDE, cause linux reply guys are actually fucking terrible at linux and can’t function in it unless it’s actually just windows

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            1 year ago

            I browse comments by new so somehow missed they’d necro’d a week old thread ffs. Gonna be more discriminating in the future.

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              1 year ago

              that is absolutely one of the tactics shit reply guys use to avoid moderation, so don’t be hard on yourself (also check their post history, reply guying is basically all they do on their suspiciously fresh account)