We Aussies have been using Augs for a while now

I wish I knew. Let me know if you ever figure it out

You should definitely check out Deviant Ollam and Mitxela

Except the bowerbird would be a boy and only collect blue things

Ok, surely this is a violation of the first amendment. This is clearly the government restricting speech. Wait, nope. It's the government ensuring its employees don't promote speech it doesn't like. Fuck.

But that is the reality of most users today. They expect to have a GUI because it gives them the options right there, rather than having to go and learn what commands this particular system accepts. If you don't cater to those users, like my parents, my friends, my grandparents, my teachers, and basically everyone I know who isn't a computer nerd, and then expect them to "come to their senses" you will be very disappointed. Good design meets users where they're at, it doesn't expect them to "educate themselves."

It shouldn't be though. A command line interface is not user friendly for entry-level users, and until Linux UX designers realise this, Linux will never gain a greater market share. And we have seen this with Ubuntu, Mint, and other "user friendly" distros gaining popularity. I'm not saying that we should necessarily aim for broad-scale adoption of Linux as an end in itself, but more users means more support for Linux which means a better experience for all.

I'm always kinda impressed when people can fill silence with a lot of words without actually managing to say anything.

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Farken oath mate, I hear what you're farken sayin. These cunts have no bloody idea and they make us all look like wankers. Shits me to tears.

You're all forgetting the Harkness test

Red mist

Wait wait wait what? This sounds interesting. Please elaborate

Mmm, fair.

And they looked the same, no cover or anything??!!

They have their pros and cons. I wore a uniform to a public school (Australia) and it definitely meant that I had one less thing to worry about every day: being judged by what I wore. As an adolescent that meant a lot, and getting the freedom to wear whatever as an adult has meant that:

1. I got to learn what's appropriate before I got that freedom and
2. I had the maturity to not care what others thought about how I dressed.

Seriously, it's 2024. Everyone has to use technology now, so the software should reflect that. UX is probably one of the big barriers to widespread FOSS adoption.

As someone who used LaTeX in secondary school, this is definitely not applicable advice to everyone. Great if you're doing maths or other technical subjects, but superfluous if you're doing anything else. Doubly so for someone who isn't a great typist.

Huh, TIL. That actually makes sense

Order matters in academia whether the authors want it to or not. Other academics will look at the order of the authors and make judgements based on that, so you'd have to specify something like "authors listed alphabetically".