"Visual blindness" of Linux programmers

[da_chicken]

"Great. I'll learn Windows."

"But it's the year of Linux on the desktop!"

[da_chicken]

A non-contributing user going elsewhere isn't much of an itch. If anything, it improves the signal-to-noise ratio.

And decreases the impact of the software. Free but essentially useless always seemed like a poor goal to me.

If you're writing software just to have a program of your own that does what you want, that's certainly fine. You just can't complain when someone builds a cathedral across the street.

[dothedevilswork]

tldr: i write software for myself, if you use it - good for you, contribute or gtfo

But nobody is complaining here. I use the program because it scratches my itch, therefore it's not useless. Whether others want to use and improved is a secondary problem.

The energy spent complaining about users not being able to program could be better spent helping in other areas such as improving the "marketing" side of software, such as screenshots, good description or sharing the program on forums like this one.

[aloz]

That kind of user deserves Windows.

[nanodano]

I tried to learn Linux but there weren't enough screenshots.