to me, it feels like they're inching closer and closer to Windows 11's design language. Minimalism where it doesn't belong (anywhere, in my book), rounded corners, hiding features not everyone needs all the time behind ten clicks of interfaces. Evolution has carcinisation, UX design has Mac-inisation. The difference being, carcinisation makes sense.
Well, obviously, lol. Glad you found a good landing point in any event. But yeah... stuff like that is why my wife keeps her distance from Linux these days. I think I traumatized her with early-2010s distros back in the day...
I had the same thought. I think she'd like the latest version, but Mint 12 was where she had a catastrophic data loss that turned her off of Linux. She's happy where she is for now and I know how to pick my battles...
I won't touch it with a ten foot pole. No thank-you.
I tried upgrading to 24.01 from 22.04 and I have NEVER had a worse experience.
AND I have been on Ubuntu for almost 10 years.
It choked on Thunderbird. The thumbnails disappeared and none of the "solutions " worked.
They screwed with the UI fonts and everything was pale and unreadable. I tried changing the fonts and things got worse.
There were other problems.
I gave up and loaded a fresh 22.04 and am much happier.
If I could get update to quit bugging me, things would be perfect.
to me, it feels like they're inching closer and closer to Windows 11's design language. Minimalism where it doesn't belong (anywhere, in my book), rounded corners, hiding features not everyone needs all the time behind ten clicks of interfaces. Evolution has carcinisation, UX design has Mac-inisation. The difference being, carcinisation makes sense.
Jeez man, that’s rough… I wonder what happened?
If I knew that, I’d still be on it. :)
Well, obviously, lol. Glad you found a good landing point in any event. But yeah... stuff like that is why my wife keeps her distance from Linux these days. I think I traumatized her with early-2010s distros back in the day...
She should try Mint :)
I had the same thought. I think she'd like the latest version, but Mint 12 was where she had a catastrophic data loss that turned her off of Linux. She's happy where she is for now and I know how to pick my battles...