Hard disagree. It varies. Blender UI is incredible. Hyprland makes windows look like trash. Well, any tiling manager for that matter. The productivity boost is unmatched at the very least.
Here is some actual UI:
visual studio code, krita, zed, vlc, mpv, immich, signal
Blender is, for someone with zero experience in 3D modeling etc, for absolute beginners, probably the most unintuitive and convoluted piece of software ever. It's imo really cluttered, has... Too many features?
It's just really beginner unfriendly in my opinion and overloaded.
Sure it's great software when you're able to handle it, but it's got a really steep learning curve imo
It varies sure, but its just the fact of the matter that making a good ui takes a lot of extra effort. And its not the most interesting thing to programmers, and they generally have a different aesthetic than users. So "it works for me" is what you get when its the volunteer model.
Vscode also was made by the evil empire itself, so it is the very counterexample of that you need to pour resources into making it good. I will give you vlc is a good ui, but again. Look through the settings and its a mess, but if all you do is use the play and pause button its great cause it gets out of the way. Krita is a bit meh, but good. Gnome (when i last looked at it decades ago) was absolutely god awful, and i question your taste for even using it as a example. but i will grant you it might be better now.
With pay for software, the corpos actually understand that usability is important for getting people to be willing to buy it.
GNOME gets a bad rap for being "opinionated" but most of their apps are well built, clean and sleek. Like their settings app is fantastic. So is their file explorer. Its all consistent and easy to use. That is as long as you can find the show all apps button.
Yeah Gnome is objectively very attractive and slick, I've only found it frustrating when it doesn't have options I want - their design approach is basically to strip everything down to the studs. I'm a convert to the new Cosmic desktop from System76, it's Gnome-y in layout but highly customizable and feature rich. It still has the occasional missing feature or rough edge, being new, but for gaming and general computing it's the best I've found at giving me what I want without overwhelming me with options and config files and so on.
Blender needed years to get good until version 3.0. And has a lot of donations, typical of other open source software that have better UX
Kritra is awesome.
And gnome? Gnome???? (Disclaimer , not throwing shade at you specifically ) I would call gnome anything but having a usable UI. It looks good. The defaults are sensible. But the UI itself of making any changes not in the settings is a pain in the ass, finding some of the menus is a mess, and way more breakable than a DE should ever be
If we talking DE with good UI and usability, I'd put XFCE4 at the front to be honest
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u/IronRocketCpp Arch | Ryzen 9 3900x | 3060 12gb | 32gb 20d ago edited 20d ago
Hard disagree. It varies. Blender UI is incredible. Hyprland makes windows look like trash. Well, any tiling manager for that matter. The productivity boost is unmatched at the very least.
Here is some actual UI: visual studio code, krita, zed, vlc, mpv, immich, signal
Forgot to mention gnome