It was not my intent to attack Linux in any way. My point was that these criticisms against the UI are stupid. If the tool gets the job done that’s all that matters.
As an example I’m building a flight simulator. I use Ubuntu to run the steam gauges and of course Windows to run the simulator. At the end of the day I’m flying and practicing instrument flight rules. The last thing on my mind when I’m using these computers is that the control panel is a remnant of Windows 8 or the Javafx app on Linux doesn’t match the UI style of gnome.
I was not criticizing Linux being hard for “ordinary users”. I’m simply pointing out the DE, WM, GUI toolkits are all fragmented and not very opaque to beginners.
I don’t know what the UI tells you about philosophies. What it tells me is that there is a large feature base in windows, worked on by a variety of teams, and there is limited time to ship and certainly more pressing issues to resolve.
As an example I’m building a flight simulator. I use Ubuntu to run the steam gauges and of course Windows to run the simulator. At the end of the day I’m flying and practicing instrument flight rules. The last thing on my mind when I’m using these computers is that the control panel is a remnant of Windows 8 or the Javafx app on Linux doesn’t match the UI style of gnome.
I was not criticizing Linux being hard for “ordinary users”. I’m simply pointing out the DE, WM, GUI toolkits are all fragmented and not very opaque to beginners.
I don’t know what the UI tells you about philosophies. What it tells me is that there is a large feature base in windows, worked on by a variety of teams, and there is limited time to ship and certainly more pressing issues to resolve.