I know this is a downer of a blog, a real buzz kill. Personally I prefer to think that I am doing a service of pointing out the whole "naked emperor"nessitude of this computing hellscape we have created for ourselves! Yes!

Consider something really basic: trying to actually open files in some app. On Windows, just as one example (as in, it is even worse on Linux, and the Mac situation isn't really all that much better than the Windows situation), I have seen the full gamut of utter broken UX every which way possible. Things like: drag'n'drop sometimes works, sometimes doesn't. Or it sometimes doesn't do what you'd want it to do. Things like: just the "open file" dialog UI is inconsistent across apps.

It is kind of mind boggling how bad everything really is.