FWIW the quality of Apple’s software in the last decade has fallen off a cliff while flagship open source projects have realised the need for dedicated UX teams. IMO they’re all a bit janky now but while proprietary software is getting worse, OSS is getting better

This is reminding me of hikes in property prices. Soon, older people are gonna say shit like

• I paid that much for 32 megabytes 25 years ago
• Why do you need so much RAM? Just use fewer programs
• If you didn’t spend so much money on Steam and Netflix you’d be able to afford it

Was this how the Butlerian Jihad started?

So TDF has a fascinating article on their blog discussing how the Austrian military made the switch. It took a lot of planning and there was a huge amount of work to help move people along.

I suspect this may not have been the case here. But I’m sure we’ll find out the gory details soon enough