Original question text by @phantomwise@lemmy.ml
What are the modern design trends you hate most? Feel free to rant! Mine are:
- Physical buttons are out of fashion, now EVERYTHING must have a touch screen instead! Especially if it makes the appliance more inconvenient to use. Like having to press a flimsy touch screen ten times to scroll through a washing machine’s programs instead of just turning a physical knob and pressing a physical start button.
- Every website looks like it’s made for a phone and was vomited by the same app in slightly different flavors of vomit.
- Actually EVERYTHING looks like it’s made for a phone… Like what’s the deal with all those hamburger menus on DESKTOP apps? Please just put a regular menu and same me some pointless clicking, it’s not like you’re lacking screen space. I especially hate that those menus can’t be opened from the keyboard like regular menus.
Electron apps. Write native apps. I don’t need a simple todo app using 300MB of RAM.
If only you could write cross-platform native apps otherwise.
Many tool sets let you do just that. Qt works fine.
The problem is that when we rely on capitalist companies to produce the software we rely on, they will reduce cost as much as possible. This leads to them not wanting to pay for separate teams to develop native desktop applications on Windows, macOS or Linux.
While I hate Electron apps as well, they are how Linux became much more able to run these proprietary apps society depends on. We know the capitalist companies wound’t invest in native Linux software, as the user base is too small.
Agreed. This is why I still subscribe to the Asahi Linux Patreon, even though two of their best people are gone. I don’t even run Linux as my primary OS. I run it on mini PCs for server stuff, but I own Apple Silicon hardware and I want the option to go Linux if I feel the need.
Imagine Electron for your whole OS (I realize why this is a silly statement, please don’t correct me).