I mean the VS Code one looks terrible to me. Fat icons on the left wasting space. Illegible text wasting space on the right. More wasted space in the bottom right. The text doesn't even fit in the buffers?! And this is their marketing shot?
I guess that's why I'm not in marketing.
Yeah, the Emacs one looks shit. They should definitely expunge those screenshots and replace them with ones that actually look good.
It's impossible to convey what makes Emacs great in screenshots, though. It's not the theme, it's not even magit or org-mode. I feel like someone with skills could make a good short video on what actually makes it great. Unfortunately most Emacs users are borderline autistic like me, though.
People will always be drawn to flash marketing, that's just the way it is.
I still don't get why someone (like you) doesn't just bundle a starter kit and make it easy to install standalone if you think this is the problem. Spacemacs has a shiny website but its installation instructions are `git clone spacemacs ~/.emacs.d` :/
I guess that's why I'm not in marketing.
Yeah, the Emacs one looks shit. They should definitely expunge those screenshots and replace them with ones that actually look good.
It's impossible to convey what makes Emacs great in screenshots, though. It's not the theme, it's not even magit or org-mode. I feel like someone with skills could make a good short video on what actually makes it great. Unfortunately most Emacs users are borderline autistic like me, though.
People will always be drawn to flash marketing, that's just the way it is.
I still don't get why someone (like you) doesn't just bundle a starter kit and make it easy to install standalone if you think this is the problem. Spacemacs has a shiny website but its installation instructions are `git clone spacemacs ~/.emacs.d` :/