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Are we stuck with the same Desktop UX forever? [video]

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179 points joelkesler | 2 comments | 13 Dec 25 18:39 UTC | HN request time: 3.124s | source
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whatever1 ◴[13 Dec 25 21:57 UTC] No.46258525[source]▶
Desktop is dead. Gamers will move to consoles and Valve-like platforms. Rest of productivity is done on a single window browser anyway. Llms will accelerate this

Coders are the only ones who still should be interested in desktop UX, but even in that segment many just need a terminal window.

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sprash ◴[13 Dec 25 22:17 UTC] No.46258710[source]▶
It's not dead. It's being murdered. Microsoft, Apple, Gnome and KDE are making the experience worse with each update. Productive work becomes a chore. And the last thing we need is more experiments. We need more performance, responsiveness, consistency and less latency. Everything got worse on all 4 points for every desktop environment despite hardware getting faster by several orders of magnitude.

This also means that I heavily disagree with one of the points of the presenter. We should not use the next gen hardware to develop for the future Desktop. This is the most nonsensical thing I heard all day. We need to focus on the basics.

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1. silisili ◴[13 Dec 25 22:39 UTC] No.46258916[source]▶
I agree with this. I remember when Gnome 3 came out, there were a lot of legitimate complaints that were handwaved away by the developers as "doesn't work well on a mobile interface", despite Gnome having approximately zero install cases onto anything mobile. AFAICT that probably hasn't changed, all these years later.
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2. WD-42 ◴[14 Dec 25 00:20 UTC] No.46259592[source]▶
I don’t know. I just started distributing a gtk app and I’ve already gotten two issue reports from people using it on mobile experiencing usability problems. Not something I thought I’d have to worry about when I started but I guess they are out there.