The Linux user experience we have? It's not the one we deserve.

I wanted to take a moment and talk about Linux UX because, let’s face it… it sucks.

Actually, it’s worse than that. Much of Linux’s UX is technically correct and that makes it objectively wrong.

No. I don’t want Linux to be more Windows-like. But I do want the most common Linux desktops to behave in a way that PC-literate folks can wrap their mind around — and do so from minute zero

  • BCsven@lemmy.ca
    13·
    13 hours ago

    Everything in the article seems misplaced or mispoken. GNOME Nautilus, click on network, if a server exists it shows up, you click it and login to the share (same as Windows except you don’t have to assign a drive letter), and options asks of you want to remember user name and password. Done. Or you type smb://host/share.

    Seems easier than Windows non GUI of: net use D: \host\share /USER:username password.

    And when I was new to Linux GNOME Disks just made perfect sense to me. Select a drive, format it, partition it, add a relevant filesystem.

    The whole article is a guy complaint it doesn’t work like he thinks it should because he knew windows way first.

    • RamenJunkie@midwest.socialEnglish
      2·
      12 hours ago

      Thats kind of his point though.

      New users, are coming from Windows. They know “the windows way”.

      Hell I had to dump all my mapped network shares on my laptop because when I wasn’t at home, the whole thing just stalls out constantly, looking for them, instead of just saying “Oh, its not there” and moving on, or just ignoring it until I actively click on it.