Weirdly as someone who has used both styles heavily, I’d say the ribbon is more practical than the old toolbars. There’s more contextual grouping and more functional given the tabs and search, plus the modern flat design is less distracting, which is what I’d want from a productivity application. Also for me two rows of toolbars & a menu is about the same height as the ribbon anyway, and you can collapse the ribbon if you want to use the space
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I still don’t know why this architecture went for a Double XOR as the NOP, I guess they were just flexing that the reference chip design could do both in a single cycle
Wow a reference to those Mac Vs PC ads from like 15 years ago
11·4 days agoNow now, AJ may not know everything, but he’ll learn
Equating Linux enthusiasts to offal is a bold move on this site
151·5 days agoPlex is probably the easiest and most convenient, I think jellyfin is viable too, but I don’t use it.
If you’ve got the money, Roon or Audirvana are the gold standard of self hosted music
If you want something similar, but free, look into things like volumio or subsonic based solutions.
9·5 days agoI was about to say “have you seen the price of them in 2024” but it’s actually down quite a bit from when I last looked
I might finally get myself one
2·6 days agoI forget where I read it but yes, future cyberpunk and Witcher titles will be built on unreal engine.
They’re not going to keep maintaining the engine if none of their future titles are using it, the engineering cost alone would be very high for no benefit.
Interesting they’re still adding stuff like this given they’ve already signalled they’re not adding any new content to the game and abandoning their engine for the next project.
I wonder if something has changed behind the scenes or if they’re just going above and beyond in maintenance support
Not allowed to credit the site in your text editor?
Is the owner in the room with you now?
Run a pihole or similar
Your web browser is just one piece of software on your network capable of displaying ads and collecting data
Some of us are still recovering from the trauma
to you
Flat design dominates for a reason, the less visually busy something is, the easier it is for users to wrap their heads around it. This gets proven again and again in user studies, the more busy and dense you make things, the more users miss stuff and get lost.
People’s opinions on the ribbon specifically are obviously all subjective, but I would say the less distracting design would be the one done less for looks, rather it’s a pretty utilitarian design if you pick it apart. This an interface for productivity tools, and as such the interface should get out of your way until you need it—the ribbon just does that better IMO.
Why on earth would Microsoft want to obfuscate features? There’s no way that motivation would ever make sense.
IIRC one of the main reasons Microsoft introduced the ribbon was that grouping functionality contextually helped users discover features, because people kept requesting features that already existed, but they just couldn’t find. I remember there being a blog on the Microsoft developer site about the making of it that went into this.