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by pfranz 2040 days ago
I haven't really used Blender (but know Maya, Houdini, Nuke very well). I think "pro" software (a wiggly term) tends to require a non-standard UI (however, I do miss when Photoshop used the base OS' UI). Pro tools end up being a bit of their own window management and filesystem that overlaps with the OS. Their decisions are part of the ergonomics of being productive in the app.

I remember when macOS started adding smart folders and other database features to Finder. I was hoping the base OS could do photo management and Photos/Aperture could just do the retouching. The same tooling could replace iTunes. After all, a filesystem is just a very opinionated database, right? In practice I'm not sure how well it would have played out.
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joubert 2040 days ago
Microsoft also worked on WinFS as a new file system based on relational database principles. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinFS
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pfranz 2040 days ago
Yeah, it was sad to see all the Longhorn tech get scaled back or dropped.
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