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Comment by Imustaskforhelp

1 day ago

Okay. I agree.

Now I for one like that it doesn't have a gui. I can script with it/tinker it with more.

But lets for the sake of general population agree that yes, most people want a good gui.

So lets go to the operating system that general population has. Android.

Now they can install termux and then go be one of us but then again not gui/cognitive load.

So there is f-droid. Also, its not that hard finding some genuinely cool foss stuff

I wanted a pdf reader on android and I searched open source pdf editor and tried 2-3 and some had poor UX and UI but then I found MJPdf (as an example) https://github.com/mudlej/mj_pdf/ and I found it to be the most superior UI/UX I have seen for a pdf editor.

Same goes for my browser. Zen-browser has the best UI/UX for browser based system. Its just so cool. I love it with Ublock origin.

I can give you some software I can personally vouch for the good UI/UX and compile a list but would that really matter?

I just thought of this idea, also another idea for a good gui is that its kind of hard and requires a language like dart/kotlin which I am not familiar with/ don't actively like (I haven't tried them)

I want to make good android apps in golang but I know I sort of can't make it or its a bunch of hacks/(not worth it?) but there are apps which do that too.

Also I am not sure how you can have marketing for open source apps when the devs sometimes if the app is a service run them at a loss financially and invest their time into it. If we can't expect donations to be made to them, I don't think we can expect this as well, can we?

The incentives system for foss is broken imo but I am not sure how changing it can happen.