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Free software scares normal people

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917 points cryptophreak | 3 comments | 30 Oct 25 15:07 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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advisedwang ◴[30 Oct 25 16:19 UTC] No.45761738[source]▶
Meanwhile, every time Gnome makes UI adjustments along these lines, there's an outcry that it's dumbed downed, copying apple, removing features etc etc.
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1. askonomm ◴[30 Oct 25 16:23 UTC] No.45761780[source]▶
Well Gnome tells people that they should just know keyboard shortcuts for everything - which is literally something only power users know to do. Their entire design ethos is a weird opposition to itself where it is aiming to be so simple and minimal that in order to do basic things you have to memorize keyboard shortcuts as there is no visual interface possibility to do those things.
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2. jampekka ◴[31 Oct 25 08:40 UTC] No.45769674[source]▶
Where do they tell to use keyboard shortcuts? I've been using Gnome 3 since it came out and I haven't encountered situations where I could do things with keyboard I couldn't do easily with mouse.
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3. a96 ◴[31 Oct 25 09:46 UTC] No.45770112[source]▶
They did in a few places about thirty versions ago.