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aegis	2015-12-04 , 09:41
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Originally Posted by Ken-Young

People like a familiar UI, because they are too lazy to learn something new. Also, when you are presented with an unfamiliar UI, you often hate it, because you immediately notice that the tricks you'd learned about your old UI don't work anymore, and you do not yet know the cool tricks the new UI allows.

I don't get that. Surely the generally more open and informed Linux users understand there are better ways than the familiar?

I wrote Windows software from Windows 2.X until I started my own company in 2000. I was quite familiar with it. But I also wrote software for Motif, OS/2 and at home had a Mac, Amiga and ran BeOS & Linux. I was familiar enough with all of those to realise which sucked the most.

It dissapoints when Windows or Android get held up as some kind of gold standard in UI design because people are familiar with them.