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Originally Posted by MariusMasalar
I don't think you were implying that I am one of those people...
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No, I wasn't, because I don't know you personally
I mean, I know two people, for whom I set up their e-reader and Calibre, and they told me to my face they won't use that program because it's ugly and looks difficult with all those buttons.
They haven't even tried
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... but just in case—I use and love Calibre. I didn't call it ugly and difficult, just ugly. And I can live with ugly for exactly the reasons you outlined.
I have no complaints about its functionality or ease of use.
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Calibre can be very difficult when you are trying to do advanced things. For example, plugboards are not directly obvious for non-tech savvy people. Even for the tech-savvy but non-programmers it can be a daunting feature to get working right.
Still, I consider this to be the case with other programs as well. Excel is not difficult, until you start writing macro's and scripts; then it can become very complex very quickly.
And about the user interface of software: I actually don't really care about looks anymore, as long as the program does what it needs to do, and stays out of the way.