And of course I’m installing Linux on it. Install went well, even the fingerprint sensor built in to the laptop works.

Mostly this will be a school and DND machine but always nice to have a functional laptop for whatever else I may need it for.

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    Because there is very little overlap between “programmers who design the systems to be as efficient and reliable as possible” and “UX designers who consider elegance and ease of use, even if it means the install is a few extra MB in size”.

    Tons of FOSS UIs tend to fall into one of three categories:

    1. CLI. Maybe a third-party GUI exists.
    2. Laughably horrendous monstrosities that make early 90’s websites look good
    3. A direct ripoff of a paid software that has actual UX designers.

    It’s because the people designing the FOSS aren’t UX designers, so they either make their best guess at it (the laughably horrendous choice) or they just copy whatever paid software they’re trying to replace.