Following a series of leadership changes recently, Xbox has started officially teasing its next console, codenamed Project Helix, which will play "your Xbox and PC games."
Windows absolutely does not design their UI as if the user is clueless
It is more userfriendly, than most linux desktop environments…
But they got 2 settings menus, and several others hidden away. Sometimes the crashes without any explanation or obscure non userfriendly error codes
Games are sometimes installed where you decide
Other times its in APPDATA which for some reason is a hidden folder… why!?
Its full of old legacy code incl legacy programs and so on. Useless bloat.
My mother asked me about finding files on her computer yesterday. Word documents. She has been working an office , on windows for like 30 years… but now word uses the cloud.
Anyways
My biggest problem with linux is a lot of programs are just “installed” and who the fuck knows where
And a lot of programs save data into some folder… who the fuck knows where
So many hidden folders with obscure or meaningless names. What does more letters cost? Make it easier for the user… nobody knows what’s in folders named:
Etc
Local (all folders are local ffs)
Lib64
Run
Srv
Lib
Opt
Sbin
Var
They probably make sense for some linux kernel developers but my software utilize some of these and IMO the names should make sense for everyone, seeing as MY files are in some of them
A normal user doesn’t need to touch those folders, so why use a “user friendly” name? Do you complain when the electronics of your car has marks that you don’t understand under the hood?
This is where the RTFM mindset is important. If you encounter an issue, there’s multiple decades’ worth of information on the internet that will most likely immediately provide an answer.
The location of installed files is determined by long-standing conventions that were in effect even before Linux was released… but I won’t go into it. You can read about it yourself: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_filesystem
This is my point: do you need to know this? Nine out of ten cases, this is not useful knowledge. I’m a sysadmin and even I don’t need to know where each program’s files are located. You should not be interacting with these files at all. Let a package manager do that.
Windows absolutely does not design their UI as if the user is clueless
It is more userfriendly, than most linux desktop environments…
But they got 2 settings menus, and several others hidden away. Sometimes the crashes without any explanation or obscure non userfriendly error codes
Games are sometimes installed where you decide
Other times its in APPDATA which for some reason is a hidden folder… why!?
Its full of old legacy code incl legacy programs and so on. Useless bloat.
My mother asked me about finding files on her computer yesterday. Word documents. She has been working an office , on windows for like 30 years… but now word uses the cloud.
Anyways
My biggest problem with linux is a lot of programs are just “installed” and who the fuck knows where
And a lot of programs save data into some folder… who the fuck knows where
So many hidden folders with obscure or meaningless names. What does more letters cost? Make it easier for the user… nobody knows what’s in folders named:
Etc
Local (all folders are local ffs)
Lib64
Run
Srv
Lib
Opt
Sbin
Var
They probably make sense for some linux kernel developers but my software utilize some of these and IMO the names should make sense for everyone, seeing as MY files are in some of them
A normal user doesn’t need to touch those folders, so why use a “user friendly” name? Do you complain when the electronics of your car has marks that you don’t understand under the hood?
This is where the RTFM mindset is important. If you encounter an issue, there’s multiple decades’ worth of information on the internet that will most likely immediately provide an answer.
The location of installed files is determined by long-standing conventions that were in effect even before Linux was released… but I won’t go into it. You can read about it yourself: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_filesystem
This is my point: do you need to know this? Nine out of ten cases, this is not useful knowledge. I’m a sysadmin and even I don’t need to know where each program’s files are located. You should not be interacting with these files at all. Let a package manager do that.
Welp. Certainly can’t argue with any of that. I’ve said the same thing myself on many of your points.