The way the author closed the issue is a bit sketchy but what’s weirder is that the OOP doesn’t state any of the arguments of his so called deleted forum posts, and instead just makes ungrounded accusations pointing to “supposed security risks others are talking about”.

Rustdesk is open source and self-hosteable. If there’s any actual major security flaws besides yelling “Chaina” (and I’d argue that you can do the same for US or Europe) it should be easy to show. It’s also end to end encrypted according to the repo,

Whoa my bad I didnt’ know I could just change every setting and spend hours to make it look like something else does out of the box.

I don’t think LibreOffice is ‘bad’ either, the functionality is great and the foss license is superior to Onlyoffice

But when I compare it to Word and OnlyOffice (especially OnlyOffice since it’s free and open source) it lacks that polish and good default settings.

Not everything has to be to be VIM, good defaults are very important especially for novice users. And OnlyOffice has understood that very well.

I would like for LibreOffice to succeed. Therefore I hope they take some design cues from OnlyOffice or have a good UI developer even come up with something better. Basically I hope the guy in the post is going to town and heavily modernizes the current default LibreOffice layout.

Oh so after getting valid examples of objectively bad UI design you start complaining?

I never tried looking into UI options, I use just OnlyOffice nowadays but LibreOffice should consider turning that on by default if it’s an option.

OnlyOffice also has a 10/10 screen when you open it, instantly asking whether you want to open a text document, PDF, make a slideshow etc. It’s just very polished and they actually put effort into the UI.

I asked it how many Israelis were killed by the IDF on october 7 and it actually responded so that’s a first

I’ll give you an example since you clearly don’t understand heuristics.

Look how OnlyOffice highlights selected buttons with a light gray tint.

LibreOffice on the other hand highlights them with very strong blue color, which draws the users attention and distracts them from the document.

There are many more very bad design choices that LibreOffice makes, but it’s just a cluttered mess in general and can really put in some work to hide away all those buttons. Yes if you know where they are and use them every single day then it’s more efficient, but it takes up a lot of (mind) space to see all those buttons all the time.

LibreOffice is always this cluttered. It’s an outdated mess of a GUI.

They can develop multiple UI’s. One for normal users and a classic one for people who like everything without a single menu bar or drop down menu to abstract the clutter away

The insane amount of clutter. Compare LibreOffice to OnlyOffice

Recommend OnlyOffice instead. It’s like LibreOffice but it doesn’t look like complete garbage and actually modern.

They turned down the heat slightly because the frogs noticed the boiling.

Seeing how you take great pride in mentioning the distro you use (by the way) I fully recommend using Gentoo so you can one-up those Arch peasants. That is about all the practical use you’re going to get out of it though.

Why is Mint wasting their spot as the recommendation for Windows users? Is it simply no longer developed or are the devs set in their ways of the UI having to look like Windows7?

Also it’s getting confusing with Zorin and Bazzite and even Aurora which is a Bazzite desktop spinoff as a recommendation.

I’ve read on Lemmy that Bazzite also has some issues. I believe GN chose it as their testing distro too and had some issue. Especially for non-gaming related tasks. Aurora is also a recommendation which is supposedly a general purpose bazzite but I’m not sure if that then has gaming issues.

Someone should really do a distro test where they test the out-of-the-box functionality of all distros on different tasks

Yes but audio drivers still seem to be a common issue for everyone. That should really just be working out of the box by now it’s insane.

His biggest issue was Premiere Pro not working on Linux, and Davinci Resolve not supporting the AAC Audio codec which VLC recorded in which he then wasted a ton of time on to get it to work and eventually tried to vibe-code his own video editor which didn’t really work out so then he purchased Davinci Resolve premium to get AAC support.

Lemmygrad an Hexbear sure. Nobody will recommend those as servers to start off.

.ml however is a pretty general server which is federated very broadly. It’s not a bad place to start off.

Fewer grammar arseholes on Reddit because the bots don’t make grammar mistakes

Yes they are used to sort comments and that’s great. You also know if you’re getting into a circlejerk or a controversial discussion.

Each instance has its own vibe. You joined [Any Lemmy instance, just a fair warning that a few instances and a chunk of Lemmy users have defederated/blocked it, so you may miss out on some content. Otherwise, pretty chill for the most part.

You can replace .ml with any Lemmy instance. The most Lemmy thing remains all the instance tribalism.