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http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2016/02/25/why-linux-sucks-and-will-never-compete-with-windows-or-osx/

This quote about sums it up:

"Linux also, like the Mac is more of a religion where Linux followers praise new features that actually make the user experience worse. The community behaves more like a cult and seems completely disconnected from the reality of making something productive.

Linux is free and is actually not even worth what you pay for it. That’s why people actually are willing to pay for something else. If Linux paid you to take it it wouldn’t be any more popular than it is now."

These idiots need to standardize one one GUI, one way to install software and be done with it. Nobody needs 30 versions of something that you have to figure out how to make it work.

This would be equivalent of a company that makes socket tools having different ways of attaching the sockets for no reason other than vanity.

So Dvorak and Linus Torvalds both believe that the direction of the UI in Linux is wrongheaded, but... things just get worse and worse. Not even big names with a beef pull any influence.

I admire the work ethic of geeks but they never, ever have common sense or a sense of things being in proportion. Moar code and more features always better.

Geeks have to have revenue and business needs to whack them down into compliance with what users really need.

I like programming as a task but programmers are by and large stupid asses with no common sense.

I agree with what you wrote above. There is no common sense, its all about their egos. Why does Linux have so many Window managers? I don't give a crap, I want it to work and I want it to be fast. Thats it.

Software keeps getting more and more bloated and less and less intuitive. You have to wonder what these idiots are thinking about.

This is a pet peeve of mine but witness the whole flat interface shit that is the big thing now. There are tons and tons of annoying shit they have done. Here is partial list:

-Transparent windows. This SUCKS. Windows has it, Mac has it and Linux has it. Who thought it would be a great idea to have semi-transparent windows so the other windows can be seen through it. Do they have any idea how hard it makes it to read text?

-Thin fonts that are similar in color to the background. This one kills me - they put thin dark gray fonts on a medium gray background. Its very hard to see.

-Buttons that don't look like buttons any longer. Now they just have text labels and you are supposed to guess this is a button. How the hell am I supposed to know this is a button? WHAT WERE THEY THINKING ABOUT?

-The stupid hamburger symbol that was started by Google and spread everywhere. Instead of having a menu at the top - oh no, now I have to click on the stupid hamburger and realize that all the settings are buried in there. STUPID, STUPID, STUPID.

-Flat blocky shapes with no gradients. Again they don't look like buttons how am I supposed to know they are buttons?

-Stick figure icons that mean NOTHING. Windows 10 is the most guilty of this of all. Its full of these icons that look like they were done by a 7 year old. And they mean NOTHING. How I am supposed to know that icon means settings, people or whatever?

There is nothing intuitive about anything they have done. Even the vaunted OS X has fell victim to it because of that idiot Jony Ives. There is stuff in OS X now that makes you think, what? Hate to burst everyone's bubble but the skeuomorphic stuff was easier and more intuitive to use.

Now I am reading that Ubuntu is going back to using Gnome instead of its own GUI. Oh yay for everyone. Gnome IMO sucks the big one. You want to talk about not intuitive, here you go - Gnome. Gnome takes everyone user interface paradigm that there ever was and throws it out the window.

The thing that really makes me boil is the user interface in my android device. Things are buried way deep in it. Asia's finest.

My 2013 LG Optimus G Pro was way ahead of 2017 Note 8. Simple and had everything I needed.

It seems like they things of way to really screw things ups.

^ Almost the same as Fire TV devices. I think that's just the style/convention today. A remote is a stick with directional arrows, select key and a back key.

I was gonna say "I love Dvorak because he always says what he thinks," but I see the article was written by a Marc Perkel. Oh.

I agree with the author that the desktop environment situation for linux is really messed up. Many in the linux world hoped Ubuntu would provide a stable, corporate-supported UI that would offer some sort of standard.... but then Canonical went on a goofy trip with their own UI (Unity) that targetted handhelds. Canonical followed Microsoft's WIndows 8 script exactly, hosing over the desktop/laptop users in favor of handhelds.

So the linux world's one chance of a stable desktop "standard" went away.

These days several linux GUIs work well if you're a typical desktop consumer doing office work, youtube, email, web surfing and the like. I set people up for that and field few complaints. But venture into serious customization or out-of-the-mainstream uses... well, that's every bit as complicated as administering linux servers.

Not sure.  I've always had LG phones they are nice. I ended up with S8 Plus and do not like it.

Not the curved edge. Not the st00pid 18:9 ratio. V30 is the same thing.

I am going to say screw it and get the LG V20, the phone I really like.

Let's see. No curved edge. 
Removable 10,000 mAh battery by ZeroLemon.
16:9 ratio that is just great.

I had the S7 Edge which was prior to the S8.

-Hated the curved screen edge that would respond to inputs. So lets think about this - I am holding a smooth bar of soap and the edge where I put my fingers responds to inputs. RETARDED.

-Fragile - you would just have to bump it and could shatter the front and back. End result is I had to put on a heavy duty armored case.

-Wireless charging - oh yeah we forgot to tell you that it would get hot as a mother. So hot you think its going to catch fire. No thanks but I can live with the wire.

-The stupid 18:9 aspect ratio as you said. Nothing else has this aspect ratio.

-The total bastardization of Android. Whatever Samsung does to the freaking interface - STOP DOING IT. You are NOT Apple. Just leave Android alone.

-Giant power consumption, I would not even get through a day without charging it. All kinds of shit running that I don't know what it is.

This is just the big things, I only had it for a short period of time and sold it. I bought it discounted because the S8 came out. Went back to the iPhone. Cant deal with this shit.

It's true, iPhone does not have that stupid curved edge stuff nor 18:9 ratio.
google pixel 2, LG and Samsung all jumped on the curved screen bandwagon and 18:9.

Nothing uses 18:9. Nothing scales well to it. I only got my S8+ due to the Black friday sale, got it for about $460, was that a good deal. They even broke into monthly payments which was the icing on the cake. The only requirement was Verizon unlimited plan --- which I already had anyway. I certainly wouldn't pay anything like $800 for it.

I really like ZeroLemon extended batteries. The phone slides into one and you the internal 3400 mAh battery plus about 8500 mAh external one. I can get it to run for 2 days in that configuration.