collaboration with classmates that use office, mostly

i guess we could use collabora or onlyoffice? but i feel like if i go to them asking “hey can you all create accounts on other services which you will find worse so i can avoid using a laggy website” they’ll just call me a nuisance

i guess we could use google docs, frankly docs is better than word online imo, but even then it’s trading trash for garbage…

oh god please. i need ms office for uni, i use the browser version, and holy shit is it bad. it makes me regret google docs…

FUCK

pointless fighting

ALL MY HOMIES

recognize that choice is good and what works for some folk won’t work for others. some people want a highly polished experience right out of the box, even if it can’t be customized a ton, and that’s fine. some devs want a UI toolkit that is solid, polished and guarantees that your app will look the same no matter the user’s environment, and that’s fine.

(i use KDE btw)

obligatory shilling for LocalSend, it’s airdrop except open-source and completely cross-platform!

it works for you because you got accustomed to it. cool! genuinely! but not everyone is a power user, not everyone will want to sift through documentation to find out how to do the thing they want that’s easy to do with word

from the non-techy people i’ve spoken to who’ve used libreoffice, they all agree that it’s worse than ms office because it gets in the way more. it’s harder to do stuff, because it’s less intuitive to them.

people in 3d modeling use blender. people in audio production use audacity. people in office work and schools, usually, do not use libreoffice, because if you can afford ms office it’s just better for them. maybe that will change with office now being ai-infested webviews held together with gum, javascript and ever increasing subscription prices… then again, that hasn’t slowed down adobe

imo the upcoming audacity 4 is an incredible example of open-source ui redesign, and should be an inspiration to everyone. the ui is sleeker, faster, easier to use, and yet it’s still familiar to existing users! but you can do good stuff without recreating the whole ui from scratch like they did, of course

it works, but it’s far from ideal. a lot of features are tucked away behind unintuitive context menus, and on some systems you need to do a bit of configuration for it to look right. for example, it uses bitmap icons by default, so if you use a hidpi screen the icons will look atrocious until you figure out how to switch them to vector icons.

and an ugly UI is a problem by itself. it’s uninviting, unwelcoming. it gives a feeling of jank, of amateurism, and not in a good way. if you open the app for the first time and immediately think “this looks like it was last updated in 2003”, it’s not a good thing.

oh, hello stallman! fancy seeing you here

everything in Owner, because i only have GOS on my tablet and there’s not much sensitive stuff there, so no real need to separate stuff

i don’t even have sandboxed google play 😅

i use it to open my apps menu, same as it did in windows, as well as a modifier key for desktop-level stuff… same as it did in windows lol

tho, i added one shortcut with it which i think is just neat: meta+Z to go to sleep. it’s funny, memorable, easy to access yet hard to press accidentally. tbh i think it should become standard

that’s not even a new thing…

my mother had a windows 7 laptop for work, she upgraded it to windows 10 (microsoft did a similar nagging back then) and not only did it become atrociously slow, a bunch of hardware drivers also stopped working, including pretty important stuff like USB

unfortunately linux wouldn’t have been an option cause the software she needed was (and still is) windows only

oh you’re right, it’s gone now. i didn’t even notice

tbh i only remember it working for non-Plasma apps, weirdly enough. stuff like Dolphin or Konsole wouldn’t work with it, but non-Plasma apps (that got decorated with the Plasma titlebar) would support it. maybe that’s why they removed it?

do you ever stop to think about it sometimes?

how worked up you are because people use an operating system you don’t like. imagine doing that with other things.

“ugh this shirt is kinda itchy” “well that’s your own damn fault for using this bad shirt!!! next time switch to a better shirt you useless fuck!”

don’t harass people if there isn’t a valid reason for doing that

what a nothing rule lol, every harasser believes they are justified

geez you sound insufferable, i wonder why so many people have negative opinions of the linux community…

also damn I don’t envy anyone who has to use a screen reader to read your first paragraph

this is the peak of “cool but functionally useless”

i unironically love it

i mean, that’s exactly what they did with threads, and many instances defederated from it because they didn’t want to have their data scraped by meta

ooooh, well that makes a bit more sense, thank you!

Ooh, that looks polished, I’ll have to look into i- why is hiccup from how to train your dragon there

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honestly surprised more than half of the apps on Flathub are verified! I expected it to be less

back before the redesign, it felt like most apps had “note: this wrapper is not made by, or affiliated with the original developers” somewhere