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angry-hacker on June 2, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why free software has poor usability, and how to i...

For me personally the biggest problem with free software (I mean linux here) is that there is not consistency. You can't design a program UI and expect it to fit in different desktop environments etc... there are no proper design guidelines imo.

pubby on June 2, 2012 [–]

I don't recall Windows being much more consistent, although I understand your point.

And keep in mind that on Linux/Unix, text streams are the universal (and generally consistent) interface.

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