Considering the linked announcement contains exactly one picture and that picture is not of "everything on linux" but one MS cli app, what are you basing your opinion on?
Also, can you give an example of a non-ugly MS cli app for windows?
Because it's Linux and not an entirely new thing that's getting launched today, you'd assume I'd have seen more of it before in my life?
And why would you want an example of a CLI app? That's the whole problem with Linux - you take some of the biggest software distributions for it and even they'll have you change some secret ascii file somewhere on the disk for it to work properly, while on windows you just click a few 'Next' buttons and you're done installing (before people start talking about package managers and how easy it is in comparison to Windows, I know about that, but they're honestly not foolproof). If Linux wants to get popular among masses (rather than a bunch of proud geeks who feel that the ones who use a GUI are all dumb people), it would have to be better at that front. Just updating a graphics card driver is so much pain on it - it would randomly not work, or it wouldn't update all symbolic links that you have to waste a day in finding, or always something like that).
Instead, you should give examples of the best looking GUI applications for it. Our company has a flagship product on both Linux and Windows and we use Qt for the UI. Exact same cross-platform code produces relatively ugly looking UI on Linux. In almost all discussions people start blaming both users and developers alike as if it's their problem.
> Because it's Linux and not an entirely new thing that's getting launched today, you'd assume I'd have seen more of it before in my life?
> And why would you want an example of a CLI app?
Because we are discussing an article about a cli app by MS and I thought your post was at least tangentially related. So please explain to me how this MS is somehow more ugly/pretty than other linux cli apps or what GUI apps have to do with anything in the article.
My post was about the fact that even though ProcMon Windows is a GUI app, they thought of releasing a CLI app for Linux rather than making a consistent interface for the same just as windows.
> Our company has a flagship product on both Linux and Windows and we use Qt for the UI. Exact same cross-platform code produces relatively ugly looking UI on Linux. In almost all discussions people start blaming both users and developers alike as if it's their problem.
That is either because of a Qt problem or a problem in your implementation, not with Linux in particular.
I've heard this before - in fact, every single time. But application writers blame third party library vendor, third party library vendor blames difficulties in implementation - I have seen it multiple times. Every time the problem is "not with Linux", but it ends up being one.
A problem in Qt would still be a problem in Qt regardless of which platform the library is being used (and it runs on LOTS of platforms). It's hardly an OS problem.
Also, can you give an example of a non-ugly MS cli app for windows?