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Sunday 19th November 2023
Windows 11 dark theme is not even honored by Microsoft
Don't worry. They invest in eye surgery research!
Is amazing how a simple new UI can elevate a mediocre OS to the top of the mountain.
I’ve seen terrible versions of MacOS yet people consider them “amazing”. We talk about the weird and ugly Ventura background following – For the first time? - Microsoft’s rhetorical concept: “if it looks good then people will use it.”
Works so far. Right now I’m writing using libre office on Windows eleven. I must say that I can’t look at the screen because the ultra 100% extra bright white is killing me and I can barely see – If you find a typo don’t blame me.. - what I’m doing.
I find that less than a half of the entire windows shell actually respects the black theme. I can barely accept that in 2023 adobe comes out with “experimental features” because the font comes to be an impossible to read challenge on the drop-down menus.
Same goes for control panel, disk management, device management. Even wordpad looks ancient because it is.
All in all a inconsistent user interface across the system itself that gets worse with every developer interface. Adobe is probably too busy trying to guess how to keep that subscriptions hot – Sorry guys. I’m out – adding an AI to a software that was primarily created to work with photography? Photoshop went from a software that every photographer had to the software that every artist have. Same goes for every Adobe product.
As for the rest, everyone seems to use a different way to build the UI. Apparently, Microsoft’s design guidelines should be at least useful to avoid such a mess.
The small segoe UI font is a huge mistake compared with Apple’s Helvetica Neue. It’s barely visible with a high contrast ultra white.
That is the reason why I usually run way from Windows. I have 3 Licenses for 5 machines each and even though I end up using Debian with KDE.
I started using a computer as a small kid. Less than eight years old. There wasn’t much to do with them back then. I squeezed all the knowledge you can get from every system – Including commodore ones – I have seen terrible user interfaces. Yet they were primitive enough to wait until someone make them look good.
Obviously, I ended up using GNU/Linux because I wanted to build my own system from scratch, to learn even more. To be able to modify that stuff bugging me. Today is just the work of compiling because you want a kickass look or modification on a program.
I guess that window interface and the mess between what the developers do with the look and feel. Of course you can also wait until Microsoft ends up with a rush jut like the one with windows 10 that ended up being decent a few months before the release date of Windows 11.
No. Either Linux or Mac. But my eyes and what I consider that a system should be is not represented in any way by today’s snoopy and weird windows. The add of those stupid checkbox “feature” is annoying. “tabs” really? Tabs? Come on.. I use them long ago. Oh yes. And the Apple “feature” that enables you to.. order your icons. Oh my…
For sure. Don’t count me in. I still like my privacy, my sight and the right to use my PC without being stalked by an AI.