Ask HN: Beautiful GUI vs. Total control?

For me (and AFAIK for many people here), it is not about either.

We want to get the work done, and run the businesses. We want to solve people's problems. We are prefer tools that helps us solve these problems in the easiest and most efficient way.

If an application/OS/tool has a user friendly and intuitive interface, great! If it gives more power to the developer, great!

But in the end, neither of these factors make us go blind and make us hide behind the tools rather than getting the work done in the best possible way, with or without using any given tool.

If you think linux equals total control, try Gnome :) (not a jab, I love gnome particularly because it doesn't have the settings-everywhere model)

My gut instinct says "beautiful GUI", but that comes with the big IF it satisfies all I want to do with it.

I'm more of a "Beautiful GUI" type of guy