• Shanmugha@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    No, Windows as in “this setting is hidden under this menu, that submenu, here click to open another sub-window…”. This will happen any time a dev tries to arrange settings in logical way (instead of flat list of toggle and input boxes), because “logically belong together” and “actually often used together or one after another” are not the same, and also dev logic, internal system logic and user logic are also three different things. Result - mad maze

    Which is why many tinkerers like CLI - at least one can run man something or something --help in most cases

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      1 hour ago

      Yeah, man is clutch… I wonder if people would be so intimidated by CLI if everyone knew how easy it was to learn commands with man

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        23 minutes ago

        A lot of people are afraid of text. Like, they see text on a screen and get visibly scared. Weirdest shit ever.

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      I get what you meant, I was just making a little joke, though I feel like there’s a huge difference between shitty ui that can’t be bypassed and reasonable ui that still can’t be bypassed. The latter is usually managable and tolerable.

      I personally prefer having both options but in general I go with a UI.

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      4 hours ago

      I feel like a dinosaur at work because many times I have no idea how to use the different programs there, mostly because everything is so incoherent (to me).

      And I don’t mean a large living dinosaur cracking trees in two while chasing my dinner.

      I mean a bunch of sad brown bones held up by sticks in a dusty museum everyone walks by.