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.
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.
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.
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.