Hello folks,
I just had a shower an was thinking why linux OSes cannot look pretty like mac? Do linux programmers have no idea what looks good? Because I met people in my life who are so good at programming and that other boring stuff but do not know what sells or looks good. You know what I mean? Look what you are wearing, do you really cannot afford something that suits you, you probably making 3 times what I do. Is similar thing happening with linux GUI, can afford it but dont know that it would make your community 100x bigger? And yes i noticed it is getting better over past 10 years or so. Slightly. Currently im trying linux mint with MACOS wallpaper. I do have macbook, I just wanted to try linux after i realized I cannot install freetube on mac (not the end of the world and not final decision stop using mac or windows which I also have for gaming). Not unless i run some commands to disable "security". And i do not feel comfortable doing it. Trying freetube happened after the day when apple locked my secondary icloud account which I used to try Indian youtube premium subscription by redeeming indian itunes card to top up the balance and buy subscription via appstore. it worked for a month, good that I bought only one months youtube price worth of itunes rupees. Was about 3 euros or dollars. I am quite new even to MacOS - 5 years or so, maybe 8. 99.9% of time not using terminal. So again what is it with Linux GUI? Can someone collaborate with me or ideally other aspiring and avid UX/UI designers to create something that would blow everyone's even apple users' minds? I mean if nobody wants I can help to make linux look amazing can you just do the coding and materialize it. I mean i have no xperience and never even tried to make an os GUI concept, should I do it first and then do similar rant? using gimp or photoshop? I have both. Photoshop GUI looks better lol and I even downloaded GIMP 3.something RC.........................
P.S. do good looking linux themes exist and I just dont know it yet? If they do, why they are not default for distros, why you have to download "some code" after that. How do I know it is not malicious? Man, so much more to learn isn't it? Is it that you linux users do not want big community and make linux look bad on purpose so there is no viruses and other shit that you can find for example on Windows, because I think if same amount of people who are using windows would use linux, linux would not be this secure. is it secure actually? Can you simply explain how is it secure compared let's say to windows? Scripts do not start running themselves? Explain me like im five please.
I appreciate your answers, and apologies to those who do not fly <@;)
Yours faithfully,
Dropper-Post
nihil sub sole novum
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwO0CDYxyxc
Do you know just how much money Apple pours into the design of their operating system?
Though I assume you never looked up what you are asking, as there are lots of people who customize their desktop to look like MacOS (there are ones that look exactly like one) or there are distros that come OOTB with a look similar to MacOS (like elementaryOS).
Since when design is rocket science especially now when there is AI which could create better sleeker design than apple
If you think LLMs will solve everything, then you're doomed.
Apple works with excellent designers for sound and visuals. It's very interesting to listen to their processes, how they work for months for a second long sound or a tiny icon. Apple has the means to employ these masters.
i hate using apple products, their inflexibility is frustrating when you know how open linux is. Apple infantilizes it's users. Linux is permissive, it becomes whatever you want it to.
Design is easy when "anything goes", it becomes "rocket science" when you're after good design. People spend their whole lives mastering these illusive practices.
when it comes to user interfaces, design is successful when you don't even see/hear/feel it. It gets out of your way.
AI is making 7, 9 fingered hands because it doesn't even know what a hand is, how a human body functions. How can it "create better sleeker design than apple" ?
Good looking UI (designs) and good UX is not the same!
Apple is known for doing both relatively good (especially on the first iphone).
However personally I still dislike the Apple UI (the macos dock eats too much screen space, ios close all where?, ios back gesture,... for example) and UX (the system actively tries to prevent me from doing certain things). I mean, in the end, there often are keybindings that do the job, but those are harder to learn the the emacs keybindings imo.
You can shrink dock or hide it.. but anyways so much we dont know