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For the umphteenth time.

Go, be a socialist. Africa is waiting. 99.9% of people visiting this website is orders of magnitude more wealthy than average african citizen.

Eat the rich? You people are the rich. Set an example. Lead the way. Be the first communist to actually practice what they preach.

Buy well, buy once 3 years ago

Exactly. Marshall Major headphones I bought some tears ago looked and were priced in a way I thought would guarantee decade of service at least. They fell apart in half a year revealing multiple fundamental design flaws.

Many here recall 90ies interfaces and lament thier disappearance. Answer seems obvious to me. Of all UX people I have spoken to, not a single one shared that appreciation. Or any interest in technology. But all of them worship Steve Jobs, Apple and such. It's a culture thing. Now a toxic culture eats their own proponents.

Ableton Push 3 3 years ago

You should not buy just in case anyone at Ableton is watching, I'm buying the fuck out of your offering the day it has linux support.

There's something about open source UI apps that just screams amateurs. It's actually a fascinating topic, I wish I could put a finger on it and tell specifically what I don't like. Inkscape just feels and looks... slightly off.

Eh, I don't know. I think that existence of crossword/todolist GTK apps is not nearly as much of a win as GIMP, Inkscape, Krita, KiCAD, FreeCAD and Scribd becoming actually competitive would have. It's indicative that biggest OSS app success, Blender, is not using OSS graphics library but rolls it's own UI. Rawtherapee, very highly regarded RAW file editor uses Qt. There's no decent looking mp3 player on Linux for heaven's sake! Every one that exists looks like shit or has zero functionality.

I didn't try to codify a few little ideas I had into Linux UI apps purely because all the drama with Gnome and whatnot. I don't have time for this bullshit. Terminal apps can be written once and just work(tm). Linux GUI development has always been for people that have no life.