After decades of messy, thoughtless design choices, corporations are using artificial intelligence to sell basic usability back to consumers

  • beeng@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 year ago

    Something like the Linux unix philosophy of doing 1 thing and doing it well comes to mind. FOSS no less.

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        1 year ago

        I honestly think it’s mostly a problem with the idea that the Office apps are extremely bloated, kitchen sink apps. No one should be looking at Word or Libre Writer and thinking “I’m going to build a contracting system for my clients out of that” or “I bet I could make an inventory system in there” and yet…

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          1 year ago

          Yep.

          People try to use Word as a desktop publishing app then complain how it shifts images around. Thats because it’s for documents, which flow page to page.

          Use Publisher for DTP, or a real, industry app. Same problem of using Excel for a database purpose.

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      1 year ago

      That’s the UNIX philosophy, not the Linux philosophy. That idea predates Linux by like a decade.

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        1 year ago

        Apologies, but I’ll also take it since Linux is a subset of Unix. But right you are, it originates there… But is Linux the most interaction we have with Unix like OS in this day and age?

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          1 year ago

          Probably. Mac is Unix like but basically all server infrastructure is running on Linux.

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          1 year ago

          There’s a lot to dislike about systemd, and some things to like. Most big Linux distributions are using it now; in regards to this comment though, systemd is a fast executable trying to handle many core system jobs at once. Instead of Cron, openRC startup scripts, networkmanager for networking… Systemd is trying to do it all.