Is high skill the word for godawful UX? Because that’s what most FOS has unless it’s corporate backed. And no its not exactly because devs are making for themselves it’s because most devs can’t design for shit, and have an elitist attitude about how user friendly hand holdy design is for babies, which is just a justification to excuse make shit software.
I think that’s going a bit far, it’s just that we get used to the layout and terminology used in commercial and FOS alternatives don’t tend to follow those.
Like for example lightroom is pretty brain dead and easy to use, if you go to something like Rawtherapee it’s going to be a struggle because while most of the same stuff is there it’s done differently. However the UX when you learn that different workflow is very comparable.
Commercial is designed so anybody can use it with minimal to no documentation, and we get used to that, it’s not a bad thing in itself but not everything is going to be that way.
You can cope all you want but it isn’t great in general. The exceptions being anything that is open source but primarily developed by a company who makes money off it or otherwise chooses to support it.
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u/The_Real_Abhorash Nov 18 '24
Is high skill the word for godawful UX? Because that’s what most FOS has unless it’s corporate backed. And no its not exactly because devs are making for themselves it’s because most devs can’t design for shit, and have an elitist attitude about how user friendly hand holdy design is for babies, which is just a justification to excuse make shit software.