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.
First we had “this meeting could have been an email”, now we have “this blog post could have been a tweet/skeet/toot”.
Most of this article is bashing an imagined strawman and the main meat of the issue is two papercuts.