Why do modern GUIs look so shit?

White space. Huge-ass fonts. indeterminate function: is it a button? is it text? is it selectable? Who knows! That's half the fun! Nah fuck menus. Here's a oversized window bar, some extra vertical white space spice, and a enormous matrix of icons in a "ribbon' layout on your 16:10 monitor. Have fun dumbass! Fuck your useable screen space!

months ago an user here wrote a wall of text about "UI charlatans" and how they are ruining usability for the sake of 'innovation." In replying, another user linked an article about soviet propaganda and how it was not meant to convince but to humiliate, demoralize and spiritually damage the viewer through its blatant ugliness, falsehood and absurdity. He then explained how the latest trend of "minimalism" (done without any understanding of the classical definition of minimalism) and the flat cancer were designed to infantilize and humiliate the user, dragging their expectations way down and encouraging them to be dumb passive content consumers rather than understanding the computers they are using. Wish I had the screencaps, but there is your answer.

Those huge bars take up a lot less space than what we had before. Just compare old Nautilus/Caja to modern Gnome files.

I really wish that this was actually the case and that the flat fad was a product of a massive conspiracy, because that would imply that at least some thought went into making these interfaces.

Holy shit that font is ugly as fuck.

I've been using mousepad for a while now. I see now reason to switch to anything else.

Once you see it, you can't unsee it.

shit taste

Hi Michael.

white screens cause eyestrain and are harmful for your eyes; white backgrounds work for print only. Deal with it, faggot.