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Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop

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  1. gchamonlive · · focus · HN ↗
    People have different ideas of what's good UX, because everybody comes from their own tradition of using desktops. Some people don't see anything wrong worth evolving from with mouse, point, click. The kind of thinking from the article, from someone that only worked on big companies, is the thinking from someone looking for the next big product, which I look with suspicion. At some point this stops being about good UX and starts being about a good product that makes good profit.

    True revolution in UX will come from making customisation accessible, so everyone can decide what's best for them without losing their minds in endless customisation rabbit holes or having to rely on big and clumsy organizations.

    1. hulitu · · focus · HN ↗
      > True revolution in UX will come from making customisation accessible,

      just like 20 years ago.

      "SW version 2028.01: Look man, i just discovered fire. SW version 2029.05: Look man, i just invented the wheel."

      1. gchamonlive · · focus · HN ↗
        Will the same fire and wheel that worked 20 years ago continue to work now? If not we have no choice but reinvent them in our terms. Or keep eating from the trash can, there is no shame in that, at the end of the day you just need to get work done.
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