Anyone else remember then being the cool new thing instead of a mandatory one?

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    2 hours ago

    Some yes, many no.

    Linux drivers? Nowadays you can plug almost anything in and it just works. 15 years ago it may have not been possible to make it work.

    The amount of self-hostable open-source software now beats everything from 15 years ago.

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      2 hours ago

      Yeah, the self-hosted and FOSS side of things will forever be improving, but corporate shit just gets worse in terms of UX. I mean even FOSS projects have awful UX sometimes as they try copying corpos and their web apps.

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        I am not using corpo software for about 6 years now, with Jira/Confluence being the only exception at work, but Windows was never very user friendly. People joke about Linux not being friendly, but it was mostly that those people were used to Windows. But even in Win95, while being better than anything before, and most things after, it wasn’t a bastion of UX.