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[–] vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 hours ago

This is madness. Madness? This is Wiiiiindoooows.

Why the hell ...

They could just make another application. With compact mode to have as a prompt in the corner of the screen, similar to DigiCam or Winamp or other such.

They could even eventually deprecate tools allowing to do the same things it provides.

I can even say that conversational user interfaces are not all idiocy - at some point I dreamed of them replacing all the bright buttons and icons we have.

People making this are not idiots.

But putting a conversational user interface everywhere people expect to have one prompt and a response, preferably with clear logic of that response, - it's just socially hostile behavior.

There really is progress behind this! Or, more precisely, there is sanity, it's not all hype. Making a useful GUI requires learning something about ergonomics and human psychology and tests, most UI designers don't have a clue. And a conversational interface, like in old text quests or MUDs and with these AI chatbots, solves the problem. It doesn't require memorizing a thousand commands and interpreter syntax like a command shell.

Unless you make a UI with downsides of both and upsides of neither. Takes Microsoft to do this.