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Ask Slashdot: Unity/Gnome 3/Win8/iOS — Do We Really Hate All New GUIs?

Posted by Soulskill on from the stop-moving-my-buttons dept.

Brad1138 writes "You see complaints about the 'next gen' GUI's all over the place, but do we really all hate them? Personally, I don't like them — I tried very hard to like Unity in Ubuntu 11.04/11.10 before giving up and switching to Mint (I am very happy there currently). But is it the vocal minority doing all the complaining, or is it the majority? Are we just too set in our ways?"

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  1. Re:"UI designers" just can't design UIs. by Yunzil · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    GNOME, Firefox, and Windows all had far more usable UIs when actual software developers were in charge of making the decisions.

    ...in your opinion.

    Software developers are mainly concerned with creating software that works, and that works well.

    ...even if it may be impossible for the average person to figure out how to use it?

    Usability does not come from gradients and curved corners.

    Nor does it necessarily come from horrible user interfaces or command line tools.