I wanted to take a moment and talk about Linux UX because, let's face it... it sucks.
Actually, it's worse than that. Much of Linux's UX is technically correct and that makes it objectively wrong.
No. I don't want Linux to be more Windows-like. But I do want the most common Linux desktops to behave in a way that PC-literate folks can wrap their mind around — and do so from minute zero.
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Umm, yes they do. Look at copilot (as one recent example). The full range of opinion I've ever encountered goes from apathy to hatred. (Never heard of anyone having anything positive to say about it, the 'nicest' thing being to the effect of 'I just ignore it, so I don't care'). And yet, Microsoft's attitude is that 'the user is wrong, deal with it', and this has always been the case in both Windows and Mac OS, while the various OSS DEs attempt to fix real user frustrations.
Many of the points they make are true for GNOME specifically, but thankfully, there are plenty of other options, and Linux != GNOME.
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