From my experience, most FOSS software is very user friendly user-centric / user-focused, while proprietary stuff is shit. What is the most notable exception to this rule that comes to your mind?

Edit: With user friendliness, I don’t mean UI design, but things like how the software is handling user privacy, whether it sees its users as users or as money-making cattle, how it handles user feedback, compatibility with other software the user uses (vs. vendor lock-in), configurability, and similar issues.

Edit2: I was made aware that user friendliness is a defined term: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Userfriendliness

      • philpo@feddit.orgEnglish
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        1 year ago

        It depends - if you got the money,it can be good. I actually worked with really really good software systems. Especially for the time.

        But…they are rare, they were all custom made/fit and the whole company using them had the right “humans first” culture behind it. And they spend huge amount of money on them.

        But as they were not shareholder value run,it didn’t matter.

        B2G software? That is hell. Pure hell. Never saw a single good one. They even managed to fuck up Linux here.

    • trolololol@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Disagree strong. Every turn and chance, revenue is given preference over ease of use. Cookies, tracking, free trials where you need to either log in or add your credit card are trends that are very annoying for users. And from there we can get into specifics of what the app does.

      It also doesn’t explain why every software made in Microsoft, either from scratch or bought after being successful, is the absolute lesson in UI anti patterns.