rkozik1989 2 hours ago

Dawg, you clearly haven't used any consumer-grade software in the past 5 years. Everything across the board is a worse experience and there in some cases are limitations that make no sense. Use any app such as Spotify or Uber Eats, its a worse experience than it was 5 years ago, hands down. Everyone outside of our bubble knows it.

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fsflover 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Isn't it just the consequence of enshittification? https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/17/hack-the-planet/

It does not affect Debian, Fedora, or Qubes OS.

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WarmWash an hour ago | parent | next [-]

I have long suspected that one of the driving issues is the continued need for people in the org to keep justifying their existence.

From the consumer POV you can make a great app that does the thing great, and then that's it. Pay once upfront. Just security updates and maybe light compatibility updates after.

Instead we get constant toying and adjusting, and even worse, get pigeon holed into a monthly subscription to bankroll the $200k salaries needed to pay the team that hides the menu button every 6 month to boost screen time.

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adjejmxbdjdn an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Those aren’t consumer software though.

	▲	fsflover 10 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		What do you mean? These are desktop operating systems for end users.

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zer00eyz 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> worse experience

This too is subjective.

No one designs for users any more. It's all gas no breaks on the path to enshitification. A lot of this is the motivation of the people building software.

Raise your hand if you ever saw a PM get promoted for removing a bunch of bad and/or unused features?