why is open source software so ugly

[Saddam Hussain Obama]

why is it than every open source software does not matter if its custom roms or sound recording software it all looks like garbage how can people put up with it?

 

[notafloridian]

why is it than every social housing project does not matter if its commie blocks or the projects it all looks like garbage how can people put up with it?

Same reason: Communism doesn't work. The moment people pay for something, suddenly whoever makes that something has to care about the user and not just their own self-satisfaction. This unsurprisingly leads to software that users want to use.

 

[HyperboreanRightsActivist]

Why do you bitch about everything?

Bitch bitch bitch bitch bitch

That's all you do

 

[RACISM]

Because people who make things for fun, usually for themselves, usually care more about funcfion than appearance. Frontend UI designer experts who don't actually come up with base ideas are way less likely to get involved with a free project.

 

[libRT]

 

[The Mass Shooter Ron Soye]

You get what you pay for.

 

[Insuficiencia renal]

Because people who make things for fun, usually for themselves, usually are ugly

 

[Named User]

Android is open-source. So I agree there.

But Musescore is open-source, but they also had to hire full-time designers and front-end devs.

 

[DumbDude43]

to filter low IQ normies of course.
in OSS we make things for people who can operate the command line. if ~look and feel~ is a concern to you then i suggest you stick to buying $3000 macbooks every year and stay far away from OSS.

 

[Saddam Hussain Obama]

to filter low IQ normies of course.
in OSS we make things for people who can operate the command line. if ~look and feel~ is a concern to you then i suggest you stick to buying $3000 macbooks every year and stay far away from OSS.

sounds like cope

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

Programmers work with command lines all day. Programmers are the ones making software, including open source software. Programmers judge things by how it functions rather than how it looks. Here's an example from a guy that programmed a Kirby game.

An autistic mind and staring at command lines all day will do crazy things.

 

[I (Don't) Have A Gun]

Because contribution to open source is dominated by autists and trannies.

 

[Moths]

Because ur mom did the frontend ui

 

[WTBOnlineFather]

When OSS devs try to make things "look good", you end up with unusable diarrhea like GNOME.

 

[VargReallyDidNothingWrong]

why is it than every open source software ... looks like garbage

Pay for the nice looking alternative then niggerfaggot

 

[Cobson Gemson]

jellyfin looks too nice though

 

[FailurePersonifiedV2]

Give examples nigger.

- Krita looks good
- Plasma DE is beautiful
- Blender is wonderful if not confusing
- dolphin is nice, that one ps3 emulator looks good too.
- LibreOffice looks decent as of recent
- chromium is open source (chrome without google), and that looks good.
- KdenLive looks good in darky mode.

Most of the software I use is OS and shit looks fine.
Where this come from?

 

[Rozzy]

Because the devs wear mismatched programming socks.

 

[Saddam Hussain Obama]

Give examples nigger.

- Krita looks good
- Plasma DE is beautiful
- Blender is wonderful if not confusing
- dolphin is nice, that one ps3 emulator looks good too.
- LibreOffice looks decent as of recent
- chromium is open source (chrome without google), and that looks good.
- KdenLive looks good in darky mode.

Most of the software I use is OS and shit looks fine.
Where this come from?

audacity
vlc
graphene os
calyax os
firefox
gnome
lemmy

 

[FailurePersonifiedV2]

audacity
vlc
graphene os
calyax os
firefox
gnome
lemmy

No one sane uses audacity anymore, but it’s not horrible. Tenacity is a more stable version, but id recommend anything else really.
VLC, just use MPV
Graphene and Calyx are both mobile OS and really stock android is pretty fuckin shit so the bar is low already.

Firefox looks pretty close to Chrome, which looks like a run of the mill browser. The fact you use example makes me question if you’ve ever used Firefox in the last 5 years.
Gnome was always ugly.
Lemmy.. why not use Pleroma honestly at this point