In fact I find macOS to have been be of the worst window managers of all the popular platforms (sure it’s pretty and easy to use, but trying to do anything beyond the basics requires magical incantations that are impossible to discover organically).
Each to their own though.
But that's alright. I'm here to change that.
May be I am missing something important in understanding? I was trying to tweak some projects for my needs. I successfully did it but it was a nightmare.
I bought the Udemy course of Bryan[1] and learned QML in one day. The next day I already had a prototype for a Kanban[2] that is based on Markdown.
1. Most people in OSS don't care about UX and aesthetics (most of the people using Qt) 2. The Qt Company's examples are absolutely ugly (with the exception of one). If that's what you show developers they would either not believe it's possible to create beautiful apps with it or that it's too hard.
I see KDE more like a professional piece of equipment. And when viewed through that lens, I think it’s designed rather well.
Design does not have to be fancy colours and flashy animations. Design does not mean Fisher-Price UI and massive amounts of whitespace. Ask Dieter Rams.
I know. I never claimed otherwise.
> Design does not have to be fancy colours and flashy animations. Design does not mean Fisher-Price UI and massive amounts of whitespace. Ask Dieter Rams
I never said it did. You’ve completely misinterpreted my comment.
My point was that commercial operating systems have design specialists and the end result is they suck for a great many professionals. Whereas KDE, despite “not having a design specialist” (I don’t actually know if that’s true, just quoting the GP) feels like it has the same well thought out design that specialist technical hardware does.
I’ve worked closely with designers (because I have zero design skills myself) and seen first hand how an arguably less beautiful design can actually be more intuitive for users
So at no point am I claiming that design is just about fancy graphics. If anything, I’m making the same point you were.
I can criticise Mac OS endlessly and was even actively downvoted here when reported facts of my personal experience with bugs on newly purchased M1 (you can dig the history if you wish). I was shocked how quality degraded in my opinion.
People here were even claiming that it’s my specific faulty machine was to blame. This ‘faulty’ machine by the way works to this very day without any hardware problems except flickering of the monitor which is idiotic in my opinion design decision (to use PWM).
So as you can see I am very critical of macOS and consider using Windows after macOS like completely unbearable. And yet your comment have puzzled me.
When I was learning macOS after years with Windows I remember that certain things were like you say “impossible to discover”. Yet with all that being said I find other GUI implementations in GNU/Linux not any better.
Perhaps I’ve missed something in KDE? What did I miss? What “doing anything beyond basic” means in your usage? What kind of tasks/workflows are those ? How KDE better in those?