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   mhoye (mhoye@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Apr-2023 09:24:12 JST mhoye

   • Christine Lemmer-Webber

   @cwebber @emacsomancer

   I’ll find the copy of Learning Gnu Emacs I have on a shelf somewhere and keep at it, but… there’s a big difference between “antedates contemporary UI” and “actively disdains the notion of accessibility”. I’ve been computering for a pretty long time, and the only times in the last 20 years I’ve sat down in front of some interface and had _no idea_ what to do next were emacs and… windows 8.

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     tech? no! man, see... (technomancy@icosahedron.website)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Apr-2023 09:24:10 JST tech? no! man, see...

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     • Christine Lemmer-Webber

     @cwebber @mhoye @emacsomancer blender doesn't have the dysfunctional baggage of GNU and decades of rms continuing to dictate what's allowed and what isn't

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     Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@octodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Apr-2023 09:24:11 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

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     @mhoye @emacsomancer Note that both of them have a certain amount of inherit level of overwhelmingness to them. Blender hasn't completely gotten past that, and maybe it can't and also provide the incredibly powerful toolbox it has; I just don't know.

     But it has gotten *much better*. Some of this is because it has gone through some major overhauls, including some of it a bit jarring to long term users. Some of it is simply because Blender has achieved enough critical mass that there are a lot of resources available and the assumption is that it's "the tool" to use. But I think real work has happened and succeeded.

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     Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@octodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Apr-2023 09:24:12 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

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     @mhoye @emacsomancer Two of my favorite programs have long had this same response from newcomers: Emacs and Blender.

     But Blender has improved for newcomers. I think Emacs could too.