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geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlto
Open Source@lemmy.ml•Welcome Dan Williams, new LibreOffice Developer focusing on UI/UX - The Document Foundation Blog
11·10 天前Whoa my bad I didnt’ know I could just change every setting and spend hours to make it look like something else does out of the box.
geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlto
Open Source@lemmy.ml•Welcome Dan Williams, new LibreOffice Developer focusing on UI/UX - The Document Foundation Blog
5·10 天前I don’t think LibreOffice is ‘bad’ either, the functionality is great and the foss license is superior to Onlyoffice
But when I compare it to Word and OnlyOffice (especially OnlyOffice since it’s free and open source) it lacks that polish and good default settings.
Not everything has to be to be VIM, good defaults are very important especially for novice users. And OnlyOffice has understood that very well.
I would like for LibreOffice to succeed. Therefore I hope they take some design cues from OnlyOffice or have a good UI developer even come up with something better. Basically I hope the guy in the post is going to town and heavily modernizes the current default LibreOffice layout.
geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlto
Open Source@lemmy.ml•Welcome Dan Williams, new LibreOffice Developer focusing on UI/UX - The Document Foundation Blog
22·10 天前Oh so after getting valid examples of objectively bad UI design you start complaining?

Nothing will be learned. People will just fearmonger and do lesser evilism again to justify not voting for anyone else.
geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlto
Open Source@lemmy.ml•Welcome Dan Williams, new LibreOffice Developer focusing on UI/UX - The Document Foundation Blog
5·10 天前I never tried looking into UI options, I use just OnlyOffice nowadays but LibreOffice should consider turning that on by default if it’s an option.
OnlyOffice also has a 10/10 screen when you open it, instantly asking whether you want to open a text document, PDF, make a slideshow etc. It’s just very polished and they actually put effort into the UI.
geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlOPto
Technology@lemmy.ml•Announcing: Thaura - Your Ethical ChatGPT Alternative
72·10 天前I asked it how many Israelis were killed by the IDF on october 7 and it actually responded so that’s a first

geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlto
Open Source@lemmy.ml•Welcome Dan Williams, new LibreOffice Developer focusing on UI/UX - The Document Foundation Blog
33·10 天前I’ll give you an example since you clearly don’t understand heuristics.
Look how OnlyOffice highlights selected buttons with a light gray tint.
LibreOffice on the other hand highlights them with very strong blue color, which draws the users attention and distracts them from the document.
There are many more very bad design choices that LibreOffice makes, but it’s just a cluttered mess in general and can really put in some work to hide away all those buttons. Yes if you know where they are and use them every single day then it’s more efficient, but it takes up a lot of (mind) space to see all those buttons all the time.
geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlto
Today I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL: In the Soviet Union, they considered being against the state a mental illness and would lock you up for the crime of being mentally illEnglish
51·11 天前No the American secret police just makes them suicide with a bullet to the back of the head. Rip Gary Webb.
geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlto
Today I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL: In the Soviet Union, they considered being against the state a mental illness and would lock you up for the crime of being mentally illEnglish
44·11 天前Nobody asked what happened to MLK and Malcolm X.
geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlto
Open Source@lemmy.ml•Welcome Dan Williams, new LibreOffice Developer focusing on UI/UX - The Document Foundation Blog
74·11 天前LibreOffice is always this cluttered. It’s an outdated mess of a GUI.
geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlto
Open Source@lemmy.ml•Welcome Dan Williams, new LibreOffice Developer focusing on UI/UX - The Document Foundation Blog
3·11 天前They can develop multiple UI’s. One for normal users and a classic one for people who like everything without a single menu bar or drop down menu to abstract the clutter away
geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlto
Open Source@lemmy.ml•Welcome Dan Williams, new LibreOffice Developer focusing on UI/UX - The Document Foundation Blog
103·11 天前The insane amount of clutter. Compare LibreOffice to OnlyOffice

geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlto
Open Source@lemmy.ml•Welcome Dan Williams, new LibreOffice Developer focusing on UI/UX - The Document Foundation Blog
34·11 天前Recommend OnlyOffice instead. It’s like LibreOffice but it doesn’t look like complete garbage and actually modern.
All depends on the sales numbers. Since the Steam Deck and Steam Machine both use Linux it gets more and more interesting.
geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlto
Privacy@lemmy.ml•A compulsory mandated app installed on every Indian citizen's new phone
3·13 天前They turned down the heat slightly because the frogs noticed the boiling.
Seeing how you take great pride in mentioning the distro you use (by the way) I fully recommend using Gentoo so you can one-up those Arch peasants. That is about all the practical use you’re going to get out of it though.
geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlto
Linux@lemmy.ml•Bazzite just delivered over a petabyte of ISOs in a single month
1·13 天前Why is Mint wasting their spot as the recommendation for Windows users? Is it simply no longer developed or are the devs set in their ways of the UI having to look like Windows7?
Also it’s getting confusing with Zorin and Bazzite and even Aurora which is a Bazzite desktop spinoff as a recommendation.
geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlOPto
Linux@lemmy.ml•I Tried Switching to Linux for 157 Days - BasicallyHomeless
75·14 天前I’ve read on Lemmy that Bazzite also has some issues. I believe GN chose it as their testing distro too and had some issue. Especially for non-gaming related tasks. Aurora is also a recommendation which is supposedly a general purpose bazzite but I’m not sure if that then has gaming issues.
Someone should really do a distro test where they test the out-of-the-box functionality of all distros on different tasks
geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlOPto
Linux@lemmy.ml•I Tried Switching to Linux for 157 Days - BasicallyHomeless
3·14 天前Yes but audio drivers still seem to be a common issue for everyone. That should really just be working out of the box by now it’s insane.
His biggest issue was Premiere Pro not working on Linux, and Davinci Resolve not supporting the AAC Audio codec which VLC recorded in which he then wasted a ton of time on to get it to work and eventually tried to vibe-code his own video editor which didn’t really work out so then he purchased Davinci Resolve premium to get AAC support.











The way the author closed the issue is a bit sketchy but what’s weirder is that the OOP doesn’t state any of the arguments of his so called deleted forum posts, and instead just makes ungrounded accusations pointing to “supposed security risks others are talking about”.
Rustdesk is open source and self-hosteable. If there’s any actual major security flaws besides yelling “Chaina” (and I’d argue that you can do the same for US or Europe) it should be easy to show. It’s also end to end encrypted according to the repo,