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What popular belief do you disagree with?

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That GUIs of FOSS applications are less easily usable than GUIs of proprietary software.
- Windows 11 royally ruined their context menus even when I was still using it, since I was a Windows user since I can remember.
  “Less usable” often means “not used to it” since every application has a learning curve. There are some design standards, sure, but the only way to get used to anything is practice.
  Also, a lot of FOSS lets you customize a good chunk of the GUI and shortcuts!
- I some cases it's true that FOSS are less easily usable.
  Always found libreoffice menus confusing almost never able to straightforward find how to get what I want. Also same with gimp.
  
  In my experience they either look horrendous or are less usable, maybe even both. It's not an universal truth tho and it has gotten better in de past couple of years.
  
  For me most proprietary software both looks horribly ugly and less usable, form what I've seen at least.
  
  I guess it kind of depends which kind of proprietary software we're talking about. I've had the displeasure of having had to use both salesforce and Microsoft AD and with those you'd be absolutely correct. Been a while seen I used either tho
  
  If I'm editing more than one object in AD I almost always use Powershell. It was one of the main motivations for me to learn it in the first place.
  It's so obvious it was a GUI made for what was once a back end tool that wasn't meant to be fussed with all the time, but then had more and more features slapped on top over time. And don't get me started on the integration between AD and On-Premises Exchange Server. I don't think I have much more than a 3 hour long exasperated scream in me about that bundle of fuck.
  
  You know, thinking back I'm pretty sure my powershell and AD classes back in college were the same class lmao
  
  I think the Libreoffice UI isn't great, but neither are its competitors. Probably partly the nature of conventional word processors that try to do everything through a GUI.
  
  I agree, but for these cases specifically I disagree. I agree that the toolbar LibreOffice defaults to is god-awful but View→User Interface... gives you options to select much better menus. Personally Contextual Groups has the most potential but Groupedbar is currently the best. I found GIMP 3.0 as straightforward as Photoshop, especially after I found the search actions tool.
- After about a year of dabbling with selfhosting I have to disagree. Some do have decent UIs but UX for FOSS is often really bad, you can tell the person coding the apps is a really good programmer but has no concept of UX, I wish I could help them somehow but any suggestion is often met with "uh? Why explain that in the UI? It's already in the documentation!" or similar

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