Comment by prmoustache
4 years ago
Looks like lots of efforts to recreate the crappy MacOS X UI and user experience. I mean it was fine and less a mess than windows has ever been but it barely evolved since Nextstep in term of UI paradigm and feels dated nowadays.
The interesting part in Apple products is mostly the hardware.
Not everyone feels this way about macOS.
My UI experience is very limited (Windows and Linux only, I currently use XFCE4). What do you consider to be the best UI(s) currently offered (in an operating system)?
I feel gnome3 is a much better/faster/ergonomic. It works great regardless if you are a keyboard, mouse or touchscreen heavy user.
My only gripe is I wish firefox would integrate it better instead with an UI similar to (now defunct?) Eolie web browser.
Also I haven't spend enough time with it recently but I think kde plasma has the flexibility to be probably as good as gnome. I just don't like the default settings and have always been too lazy to dig deep into it. I used to love kde3.
>Gnome3
When people way gnome3 do they really mean gnome3 or gnome3..gnome43?
I really like Gnome 42 and improvement that can be seen in 43, but I didn't like gnome3 at all
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Unironically gnome 38 for me, I'm on 41 and it seems a bit buggier
The killer feature I saw in the last years was the HUD in that custom desktop environment Ubuntu had for a while before going back to gnome.
The ability to just type and search through all menu items saved me so much time!
You probably mean the Unity desktop, which now seems to be maintained separately from what I can tell: https://ubuntuunity.org/
While I think that your take on Apple UI/UX not being good is rather contrarian (given that many quote them as some of the best in the industry), I agree that using Ubuntu with Unity was actually a reasonably pleasant experience, at least in the later years when they had addressed most of the quirks that the earlier versions struggled with.
Then again, I'm the kind of person who is also served perfectly well by something as simple as XFCE or LXQt, so maybe I'm a bit biased and my standards aren't the highest. Yet, I really appreciate a UI that's functional and feels snappy.
That's highly subjective point of view. I've used windows since high school (about 4-5y) until Win7, then Ubuntu for 7 more years, after that Mac. Switch was always hard, but now I would never go to neither Win nor Ubuntu. Mac's UI is so superior in my opinion - for my work and productivity, that I would never switch back. People often talk bad about some Mac UI stuff like they are "bad" because they are "different" than people are used to on Win or some imaginative "this is how it is supposed to be" stance, and I get puzzled because those are precisely features I like and I want.
Particularly the "simple installs" graphic on that page. Who wants to, using a mouse cursor, after opening an installer "shortcut", click and drag an icon onto some other icon, presumably representing a shortcut to an "app" folder, simply in order to install a program? What is that even supposed to represent, anyway? Big step backwards for package management.