this post was submitted on 21 Oct 2024
896 points (99.4% liked)
196
16407 readers
1986 users here now
Be sure to follow the rule before you head out.
Rule: You must post before you leave.
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Not labeled on/off, the toggle just changes between green and blue.
I installed Fedora Linux recently and have no idea if I enabled or disabled 3rd party repositories
It is no longer just scumbag design it has become standard design
It's still scumbag design.
The scumbags are winning.
But if they have nothing to gain ... yeah actually I think that's worse somehow...
I miss the days when buttons had words on them instead of hieroglyphics.
Both was good. Both is an option. People seem to forget.
It's difficult to separate 'you like how things worked when you were fifteen' from honest appreciation of how much Windows XP era design was just better. Not the giant-head video player, or the Fisher-Price color scheme, but like-- remember when things looked like things? Remember when each icon was allowed to be a different color? We let people shit up plain text with sculpted multicolor emoji spam, but the parts that do stuff better be all one shade of gray sharply delineated from another shade of gray.