Recently tried a Windows machine again for the first time in years, and it's no better. This whole paradigm of "desktop" UX feels like email -- an annoying, bureaucratic clearing-house locus, where no amount of quality hardware can make up for poor interaction metaphor.
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It's not fun for writing
It's not fun for coding
It's not fun for managing my documents on cloud
It's not fun for drawing/graphics work
It's not fun for anything, period.
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Having experienced the Raspbian desktop briefly, I'm even considering *gasp* going back to a CLI-first unix environment. I'll never be a shell-scripting, emacs-centric ninja type, but I am comfy enough to use it as primary work environment.
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I've never actually used linux for any significant time as a desktop, only as a remote server via SSH. My unix-desktop experience is from Solaris era (my grad school engineering workstations lab went straight from Solaris to Windows).
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But this is not ideal. I don't really enjoy the unix UX either, but it says something that the mac/PC style desktops are getting so dated and clumsy that it's a real alternative now. Linux for the desktop finally arriving via the mainstream desktop experience getting crappy?
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We really need a modern desktop UX metaphor that's more in harmony with how the web experience through a browser has evolved... not sure what I mean by that, but some sort of transparent network-is-the-computer stream metaphor, where I can have my filesystem and cloud it too.
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Basically, I'd like something that feels more like Roam as a desktop OS. A fundamentally modern stream or graph-based network of objects and relations.
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Something that neither patronizingly hides technological expressivity behind a severely dumbed-behind facade, nor is trapped in ancient, baroque, industrial metaphors (document, desktop...). Digital native metaphors should draw from... nature? ecosystems? Forests?
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One solution I'm considering is a heavy duty home server (since I want to get into serious astrophotography image processing and machine learning) paired with a really cheap chromebook
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dunno... I guess I'll still use something like Atom on the desktop, but do all other stuff on the CLI?

