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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

@Bro666 @DeltaWye
FreeCAD can cope with low end, sketch-and-pad work. New users seem quite happy. It really needs a usability upgrade to help on-boarding though. More visual interaction feedback would help a lot. A verb-noun UI too. Start a command, which then guides what selections are needed.

For high end and surfacing work it's a non starter.

We need more people with programming, CAD and usability skills. A rare combination, it seems.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

@Pantherina @diazona @louis_sch
Having an option to choose should keep twice as many people happy. The markdown apps I use, don't show any formatting marks, and have style icons. Lots of us outside the IT world are used to this wysiwyg way.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

@mmababes @kde I like the productivity benefits of seeing at a glance what is running, and switch tasks with one click.

It's easy to change the look of the Start button. Just right click on it.

I think looks are much less important than productivity and choice.

Some desktop systems focus on a glossy look, yet are unproductive.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

@orbitz @m4
I just install stuff on Kubuntu without knowing for which environment it was created. It's possible that Kubuntu has the necessary Gnome support files to make it all work. I added other app stores too. It all just seems to work without me needing to know how.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

@Bro666 @holycrap
I install it from a USB stick. It's not hard. Last time that took me less than 10 minutes. I'm not an IT person, never using the command line or any IT things.
Linux is not perfect, but very usable. The distro I use looks after itself. If anything does mess up, I can simply reinstall.