<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gamingonlinux" class="u-url mention">@<span>gamingonlinux</span></a></span> Hey <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://beige.party/@Nio" class="u-url mention">@<span>Nio</span></a></span> &amp; <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://beige.party/@PixysJourney" class="u-url mention">@<span>PixysJourney</span></a></span> , a bit more on the new expedition! </p><p>Thanks for the heads up <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://wetdry.world/@QuadRadical" class="u-url mention">@<span>QuadRadical</span></a></span></p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@robpike" class="u-url mention">@<span>robpike</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@dabeaz" class="u-url mention">@<span>dabeaz</span></a></span> </p><p>There are many reasons, but I claim the unhealthy tendency of modern languages not to have a proper standard library one of them.</p>

<p>if I&#39;m being honest this software has a UI polish in the top 10% of what I&#39;ve seen from GPL software. it doesn&#39;t look like an enterprise java app from 2001, and it isn&#39;t particularly cluttered. if it wasn&#39;t abysmally slow and didn&#39;t have completely weird shortcut keys and actually had a manual that was correct and up to date, it&#39;d be pretty exceptionally good for open source science software. but for normie users (and my wife is far better than the average at this) it&#39;s still super high friction</p>

<p>it crashed so we&#39;re stopping for a pizza break</p>

<p>it went full screen and has no indication for a method to exit full screen. if you try to alt tab out it continues to capture focus, so you can&#39;t read the manual to find out how to exit full screen mode.</p><p>the &quot;exit full screen&quot; shortcut turned out to be ctrl-Q. naturally.</p>

<p>honestly I&#39;m just surprised it even has a manual available</p>

<p>she is making angry noises because she&#39;s trying to follow the manual but the UI is completely different to the images in the manual and does not behave in the manner described in the manual.</p><p>also it is extraordinarily slow. some of the buttons have &gt;5 second response times.</p>

<p>my wife, downloading some astronomy software that makes you accept the GNU GPL in its installer: &quot;I&#39;m actually really looking forward to using this, it sounds really cool&quot;</p><p>me, in my head: &quot;I guarantee this software is going to have awful UX and I don&#39;t have the heart to tell her&quot;</p><p>my wife, three minutes later: &quot;I changed my mind I fucking hate this software&quot;</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@robpike" class="u-url mention">@<span>robpike</span></a></span> Oh, I know why, but I just don&#39;t want to say the quiet part out loud.</p>