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QuazarOmega @ QuazarOmega @lemmy.world Posts 3Comments 229Joined 2 yr. ago
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You sidestepped the topic of "open source apps have bad UI/UX by default", that's just not true. I agree that GIMP has pretty bad UX, there's no questioning it, it also has a long history and that means technical debt when devs don't work on it very consistently, the Photopea dev got to start anew so they could skip working on old code. I think we also underestimate that the widespread availability of clear UI and UX guidelines in recent years that came with the emergence of new platforms like Material for Android initially and then all other platforms subsequently, helps a lot in shaping how non-designers can imagine the layout of their software.
The project is also important to their livelihood (since it is commercial) so the dev will put all their effort into making it better.
This is meant more as an explanation rather than an excuse of course, but it's also to say that yeah, maybe if one of us wanted they could make the next cross platform Photoshop, but they need the skill, the time and the incentive to work on it. Plenty of free software manages to have a good interface even without being commercial, but when the type of things they try to achieve is a very big undertaking you can see that most glaring examples have the money going in it (Blender), others survive on being simpler, being born later, having more dedicated developers that maybe get to work on a new exciting/pleasant language etc.
There are certainly exceptions to the rule, but you really do notice it. Another interesting example is Thunderbird that for so long has remained stagnant with its aging UI/UX rules (some might think they were always better, I guess that's up for debate) and now after painstaking work to modernize the code they were successful in also modernizing the interface quite a bit.
Hold up, Fatdog64 is an actual thing??
It symbolizes the wider breadth of the project, you'll run everything through it just like a windowing system
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karab.in looking fron the side:
Then you pat yourself on the back for inspiring the next dev that comes across your project
This is my project. There are many like it, but this one is mine.
My project is my best work. It is my life. I must master it as I must master my life.
Without me, my project is useless. Without my project, I am useless.
Take off the /s and do it!!
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Mfw I look at the releases section of a new cross platform application
You should be able to avoid getting flagged if you encrypt your files with something like cryptomator.
can't easily d/l mp3s from youtube music
You can with yt-dlp and any of the GUI frontends based on it. I suggest these:
(Anyone who knows any, feel free to suggest more)
Omg haha, sorry about that! I believe the server was having problems just at that moment, since I couldn't access lemmy.world anymore, I guess they ended up being sent through after the outage (was I the only one experiencing it?)
Yeah, I do that actually, though I keep a "serious" profile where there's little activity and another one where I can just do whatever so I engage a lot more with other projects and make some experiments for myself, so it also ends up being the most active, but I don't show it, maybe I should?
In my experience interviewers look very pleased when I show them what I made, but they don't seem to dig into it much most of the time, so I don't know how important they really find it.
I'll definitely try to put more emphasis on those anyway, so they can see a good showcase.
A personal website that highlights your best work
That sounds interesting, I'll definitely try that, thanks!
Yeah, I do that actually, though I keep a "serious" profile where there's little activity and another one where I can just do whatever so I engage a lot more with other projects and make some experiments for myself, so it also ends up being the most active, but I don't show it, maybe I should?
In my experience interviewers look very pleased when I show them what I made, but they don't seem to dig into it much most of the time, so I don't know how important they really find it.
I'll definitely try to put more emphasis on those anyway, so they can see a good showcase.
A personal website that highlights your best work
That sounds interesting, I'll definitely try that, thanks!
Yeah, I do that actually, though I keep a "serious" profile where there's little activity and another one where I can just do whatever so I engage a lot more with other projects and make some experiments for myself, so it also ends up being the most active, but I don't show it, maybe I should?
In my experience interviewers look very pleased when I show them what I made, but they don't seem to dig into it much most of the time, so I don't know how important they really find it.
I'll definitely try to put more emphasis on those anyway, so they can see a good showcase.
A personal website that highlights your best work
That sounds interesting, I'll definitely try that, thanks!
Yeah, I do that actually, though I keep a "serious" profile where there's little activity and another one where I can just do whatever so I engage a lot more with other projects and make some experiments for myself, so it also ends up being the most active, but I don't show it, maybe I should?
In my experience interviewers look very pleased when I show them what I made, but they don't seem to dig into it much most of the time, so I don't know how important they really find it.
I'll definitely try to put more emphasis on those anyway, so they can see a good showcase.
A personal website that highlights your best work
That sounds interesting, I'll definitely try that, thanks!
I can see what you mean, though I still find it just harmless humor
This is more like internet culture tho?
So it really is like that eh?
Do you have any tips for what could help me, even a little bit, to have better chances?
What does it do with it then [...] is an orthogonal question.
Hm, ok if we take the word "distribution" for it lexical meaning then maybe, although wouldn't that be "distributor"?
In this field "distribution" is the set of things that constitute the software package, by extension, in the case of free software, it is more a synonym of "flavor" since anyone can redistribute with their own changes added on top. You wouldn't call a supermarket a Cocacola distribution, it's a distributor, but the drinks themselves are the distributions (tho in my mind "distributed" sounds more fitting at this point).
If having a system of OS and server, both property of one maker, where the server distributes a form of an OS x (even just the source code) and the client OS can download those files, make the OS a distribution of x, then I can set up a computer with e.g. OpenBSD (with my own modifications to make it mine) that downloads an Ubuntu ISO from my server, then I load up that ISO into a virtual machine and now I magically turned OpenBSD into an Ubuntu distribution??
Windows
Uhhh, well I'd say it's more like a hypervisor if we're really pushing it with WSL
The developers of free software will never beg you to use their software, that's what companies with commercial software do.
They surely try to appeal to a certain userbase so they also ask for feedback, bug reports, testing and also contributions, translations because they aren't working for you, they are working with you. Your phrases sound kind of entitled, like there's someone that ows you better software, but there's no one to complain to except to those who tell you that GIMP/any software is totally fine for everyone without knowing your specific use case. Developers of free software are anyone with any skillset who will try their best, but it doesn't mean they're masters, people who code to flex will probably be found at code golfing competitions instead