“Better” is entirely subjective, complexity can provide improved power for advanced users but make it more difficult for new / average users by compartmenting the “happy path” regular actions into multiple composable disconnected features.
For example, LibreOffice doesn’t have the “Format as Table” feature from Excel, which in a single action combines adding sorting arrows along with a color scheme on a selected range of grouped cells. The range of grouped cells and the background colors in the Excel version auto-expand as new columns or rows are added. Sure, I could press 3-4 different hotkeys and manually update all of this in a sequence for LibreOffice Calc each time I modify the group of cells, but ideally the software would have some single unified action to not make me need to do that without resorting to creating custom possibly flaky macros.
I’ve thought about doing this, what kind of device do you use for input?
I have a Logitech K400 Plus portable keyboard and it works great for general use, but I end up using my Apple TV on the couch instead since I prefer using a TV remote / gamepad to navigate.
It’s unfortunate the HDMI forum is dragging their feet on this, but it’s kind of the nature of their business model so I’m not holding my breath waiting for things to resolve.
To use Linux at 4k at a high refresh rate with a TV or other screen that only has HDMI ports, they sell high-performance DisplayPort to HDMI adapter cords for like $30 on Amazon. My Bazzite machine works just fine on a 4K tv at 120hz, and even enables HDR now which it didn’t before with the regular HDMI cord.
If the HDMI forum thing doesn’t work out, I totally could see Valve offering a DP to HDMI cable just so folks don’t need to do extra searching to get the best performance out of their new hardware.
It's felt quite awkward to tiptoe around the existing spec when building features that retrieve data; we've had to either use POST to keep sensitive filter criteria out of http logs or just create a usually massive URL-encoded query string.
For example, LibreOffice doesn’t have the “Format as Table” feature from Excel, which in a single action combines adding sorting arrows along with a color scheme on a selected range of grouped cells. The range of grouped cells and the background colors in the Excel version auto-expand as new columns or rows are added. Sure, I could press 3-4 different hotkeys and manually update all of this in a sequence for LibreOffice Calc each time I modify the group of cells, but ideally the software would have some single unified action to not make me need to do that without resorting to creating custom possibly flaky macros.