<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>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> as long as it works on Lennart’s laptop, anything goes</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@shriramk" class="u-url mention">@<span>shriramk</span></a></span> omg amazing</p>