Comment Re:First World Problems (Score 1) 1110
I tried using the Ribbon for a while. I found that it was mostly intuitive (although try finding something like the double underline in Microsoft Word if you don't already know where it is; it's awkward in both pre-Ribbon and Ribbon versions, but somewhat harder with the Ribbon), but my main issue is simply that it takes more clicks. With toolbar+menu, if something's used a lot it's on the toolbar in a known place and can be accessed with one click. If something isn't used a lot, I can still access it through the menus. On the other hand, with the Ribbon, the number of clicks it takes to do something depends on whatever you did last, so it's not only more for common tasks than a menu+toolbar is on average, but it's also inconsistent; unless you do a useless click on a Ribbon tab even if it's already open, your muscle memory is going to be screwed up.
(And another observation: why isn't the "save" button on the ribbon in Microsoft Office programs? It got moved to a separate area precisely because it's commonly used and the Ribbon is bad at handling commonly used commands.)