Even enterprise-class non-Windows OSes have regressed greatly in interface design.

Over the past week, I’ve been using both CentOS 6 and CentoOS 7 which are rebuilds of Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Cent 6 is very clean and straightforward. Programs are labeled sensibly. It’s simple and like a tool should be.

Cent 7 is like someone grafted the worst tablet in the world onto the interface. Icons are missing (on purpose). Much is confusingly labeled or not labeled at all. You have to swipe up to log in, which took me about 10 minutes to figure out.

Why you’d ever, ever want a tablet interface on a server I haven’t a clue. Anyone who did this or had anything to do with it should be fired immediately, and if they worked for free, they should be hired and then fired.

Most of the time I will be in the command line anyway. But a few things can’t easily be done there, even per Red Hat, so it’s inevitable this monstrosity of an interface will annoy me from time to time.

Why does anyone think this is a good idea? Phone interfaces belong nowhere near servers, not at any point, no matter what.