• Draghetta@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Yep totally unheard of for foss software to get worse. Gnome 3 and kde 4 for example were universally acclaimed.

    I think that the post author just neglects that software has become mindblowingly complex compared to the days of yore, if you put together all the features of netscape + win 3.11 + wordperfect + whatever other thing they were using in the 90s at any given point you don’t get 10% of the complexity of a contemporary productivity app (say outlook) let alone a full operating system.

    It’s clear that the more complex something is the more things can break. It’s like complaining that F16s are worse than consumer 40€ drones because the former require maintenance every few hours of flight while the latter don’t.

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      1 year ago

      But if all you need is a drone and all anyone makes is an F-16, that is a shitty mismatch. I don’t need an outlook that does all that shit, I just need to check my email, or at least set up a filter to send everything to the trash.

      I don’t need teams to do document management, I just need to chat with my team. I’ll resend a document if it is needed for any reason. Companies are adding useless bloat to all of these things and then breaking the core functionality because they’ve made things hard. This is not progress.

      Edit: fixed some iOS auto-incorrect. Apologies for any incoherence before.