[addicted]

There you go proving that it’s not just that many Linux users have a bad design sensibility, but worse, they will defend bad design as good design.

Not only do you defend it, even your defense proves that Comic Sans is a bad design, because matching the needs of what it’s used for (in this case a business setting, where fun fonts are not allowed) is one of the highest factors in good design.

And you display another behavior which is common among Linux users that the parent hasn’t mentioned. Finally resorting to complaining that the Users are wrong.

Here’s the usual 3 step that prevents a lot of progress in the Linux world.

1. Have bad design ideas. 2. Defend those bad design ideas. 3. Insist users and the people who want better design are wrong.

[Pannoniae]

Not all of life is business, and there's some business where fun is allowed.

Also, Comic Sans is not even something rebellious, it's literally a good-looking, quirky font, people just hate it because it looks distinctive and it stands out.

This is a bit dystopian to scream "NO FUN ALLOWED"....

[walteweiss]

Oh my, you guys came from ’90s or ’00s with your Comic Sans. I myself forgot this font ever existed, I see it nowhere these days.

It’s beyond awful, just get yourself some link to Google Fonts at least, and explore the myriads of much better looking fonts in every possible way. That’s exactly the problem with aesthetics perception of the FOSS community, having this subjective ‘oh but I like it’ stand on absolutely mediocre shit. I’m very happy that by some (unknown to me) reason modern Gnome (45) looks (and works) so good.

[sph]

I'll typeset your obituary in Comic Sans. I'll even add a clipart.

[sanitycheck]

> 1. Have bad design ideas. 2. Defend those bad design ideas. 3. Insist users and the people who want better design are wrong.

Not sure if you're right or not about Linux, but what you've laid out there has been Apple's approach for the past 20+ years and it's been working out pretty OK for them!

[walteweiss]

Yeah, just the company making the best UI/UX and basically leading the way for everyone. So bad indeed that their just smartphone department worth more than some countries GDP.

[lupusreal]

Since we're all being frank and sharing our two cents.. The people who criticize Linux aesthetics often come across as insufferable snobs who are obsessed with small details and have a hard time acknowledging the subjectivity of their personal preferences. If they spent half as much time configuring KDE/etc as they did complaining, then they'd soon have a system that aligns with their preferences.

[cedilla]

Op did not say it is a good choice for business.

Among designers the idea that comic sans is a very decent font is a very uncontroversial opinion.

[jdiff]

As a designer, the absolute warmest take I've seen towards Comic Sans is "It's fine, not good, but fine. But it's so overused and misused that it's become slightly radioactive."