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| Authored by: rsteinmetz70112 on Saturday, December 08 2012 @ 04:12 PM EST |
I have lived through using many different User Interfaces including APPLE DOS,
CP/M, Xenix CLI, GEM, Sunview, SUN/OS, and various X Windows windows managers on
several Unix and Linux systems plus Mac and MS Windows 3.0, 95, 2000 and XP not
to mention various telephone and PDA interfaces.
While I have avoided recent Windows versions.
I find most people like what they are familiar with and usually try to make a
new UI as familiar as possible. Every time a significant change is made in a
comfortable interface some people rebel, the bigger the change the more people
rebel.
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Rsteinmetz - IANAL therefore my opinions are illegal.
"I could be wrong now, but I don't think so."
Randy Newman - The Title Theme from Monk
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| Authored by: kjs on Saturday, December 08 2012 @ 05:53 PM EST |
so true! I was a die-hard KDE fan until they went 4.x. I give the new thing a
try every now and then but so far it never made it out of a confined VMware
installation into my real PC. The best thing I found was XFCE and LXDE and all
my machines are now XFCE. Trinity had to many issues to feel comfortable with it
but I may have to give it a try again.
The main issue I see is that the user interfaces are designed to please those
who don't need a computer but an email/web/social media gizmo and not the far
smaller group of people which see the computer as something to do some work on.
As long as XFCE doesn't get bitten by the same bug I will stay with it. If they
go crazy too I have to find another one.
winDOS8 tries to please both camps and the merger just doesn't work.
>kjs
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not f'd, you won't find me on farcebook[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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