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You heard #Adobe. Deep down you knew this was coming. Now all your art are belong to them. Time to move on to better things... in c/kde@lemmy.kde.social

[–] ianp5a@mastodon.cloud 1 points 5 months ago

@Bro666 @DeltaWye
FreeCAD can cope with low end, sketch-and-pad work. New users seem quite happy. It really needs a usability upgrade to help on-boarding though. More visual interaction feedback would help a lot. A verb-noun UI too. Start a command, which then guides what selections are needed.

For high end and surfacing work it's a non starter.

We need more people with programming, CAD and usability skills. A rare combination, it seems.

Klevernotes: UI changes, performance improvements and more! in c/kde@lemmy.kde.social

[–] ianp5a@mastodon.cloud 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

@Pantherina @diazona @louis_sch
Having an option to choose should keep twice as many people happy. The markdown apps I use, don't show any formatting marks, and have style icons. Lots of us outside the IT world are used to this wysiwyg way.

Gushing about KDE applications in c/kde@lemmy.kde.social

[–] ianp5a@mastodon.cloud 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

@orbitz @m4
I just install stuff on Kubuntu without knowing for which environment it was created. It's possible that Kubuntu has the necessary Gnome support files to make it all work. I added other app stores too. It all just seems to work without me needing to know how.

Why wait for Microsoft to catch up with what we've been doing for decades? in c/kde@lemmy.kde.social

[–] ianp5a@mastodon.cloud 2 points 11 months ago

@Bro666 @holycrap
I install it from a USB stick. It's not hard. Last time that took me less than 10 minutes. I'm not an IT person, never using the command line or any IT things.
Linux is not perfect, but very usable. The distro I use looks after itself. If anything does mess up, I can simply reinstall.

*Permanently Deleted* in c/fediverse@lemmy.ml

[–] ianp5a@mastodon.cloud 3 points 1 year ago

@lrhodes Yes. So true. Similar to the Twitter meltdown. Sad that you get people saying "I'm going back to Reddit for the content, to make sure the content stays on Reddit."
Content on Reddit now is ageing fast. You can help move the content if you have a little bit of patience. And some foresight. And not require that it moves immediately.