No your not. I think us ribbon haters are the minority. I just dont get how you can change an ancient interface and its shortcuts overnight and have people go along with it without a choice.
I think the people actively "like" it are the extreme minority, most silently put up with it because that is what work/school forces upon them or because they are too young to remember what a good UI looks like.
If they had done that people would OVERHWHELMINGLY have switched to the menus UI and the guy who wasted millions of dollars designing the ribbon interface would have looked really bad to his superiors.
At least in Ubuntus case you can always switch back. Such is the magic of Linux.
Maybe I’m wrong, but I disagree. What I’m specifically saying is that they should have added a toggle hidden away in some page of the settings menu - something you can only find if you were to spend some time scrolling through menus or if you looked it up. Not a case where they give you a popup on first launch.
UIs hit perfection in the win98 era. Greyscale, menus, boxes, NO ANIMATIONS. Everything follows a clear and simple click and hover function. No mouse wheel. No gestures.
Or as was brought up. The command line (which is essentially why Linux is so awesome today).. It just works.. There is little overhead.. And you have to know what you are doing to make things happen... Which is a good thing.
Windows XP hit me in the face with a baseball bat on how sluggish the interface and bloated it all was.. Had to really start turning things off and really changing registry values just to get it to a point i could tolerate (Yeah no nostalgia for XP, its the beginning of the end).
That’s a good point.
You clearly seem to like the most lightweight experience and that’s valid - and I get not liking Luna. If you found it sluggish specifically though - what hardware were you running? XP has consistently been one of the snappiest and performant operating systems I’ve ever used.
There's a lot of pros and cons on the CLI argument. Definitely it is superior in the technical space. But it hits a wall for the average user. The math works out that a typical user can easily memorize about 50 commands, but for the same effort can learn 500 menu/icon combos. CLI is awesome for people like us but not so great for our mothers.
The VERY FIRST thing I did on my very first XP install was find and turn off all the pretty features. They actually had a radio button for "optimize for performance" and the desktop reached win2k-levels of responsiveness after you did that. I am with you on win2k being the peek GUI experience, especially since thats pretty much how I ran my XP systems.
The net-loss for the economy for the forced introduction of the ribbon interface is estimated in the billions of dollars. Billions. With a B. Its hard to find specific examples of poor UI designs that cost the world that much.
Well things are heading that way regardless. Granted im rusty with lots of things because I was using it more more regularly back in the 20 Teens.. Ill get back to that again when its my only option. Im not afraid.. It whats going to happen.
I have several coworkers who do this on the regular. And a lot more who use email in a GUI and live the entire rest of their working lives in CLI.
