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gtk3, gtk4 (probably?) qt, qt in flatpak, gtk3 in flatpak, gtk4 in flatpak (probably)... I'm just not fighting it anymore

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[–] TriangleSpecialist@lemmy.world 55 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

This below is windows 11 consistency, within their own os context menus. I am not even starting on the fact that window decorations there too are a non standardised mess.

I agree that lack of UI consistency is less than ideal, and very real in Linux, but let's not pretend that this is a main issue stopping people from migrating (from an equally inconsistent OS)

[–] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Okay Windows has gone to shit way more than I thought in the last 10 years.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

And now they've gone atomic updates (still with insufficient internal quality control) you get monthly *update xyz breaks abc".

[–] TriangleSpecialist@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

Oh yeah, I am forced to use it for work and it's just incredible how innovative Microsoft is at making things worse. Takes real talent at that point.

[–] Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago

It's a real shit show

[–] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 3 points 2 days ago

Yea... not to mention the file browser context menu takes five seconds to open for me (on a very high end machine!)