 Let's talk for a minute. Shall we it's been a hot minute since the last time I got ranty about something usually I just ramble on about stuff and Today what I thought is I'm I've got something to talk to you about and I'm irrationally angry about it It's and it is irrational and you'll see what I'm talking about as we get into the actual topic But I have this question for you. Why do scroll bars suck so hard now? This isn't a Linux problem. This happens on Windows as well The only operating system that does scroll bars. Well is Mac OS and that's because Apple focus is on design everywhere else scroll bars are kind of horrible So let's take a look at what I'm talking about and this is especially heinous When we get into a website that has dark mode, so let's just take a look at brave shall we this is brave on YouTube's website or it's the YouTube studio website Look at those scroll bars like what even is that like seriously? We have this glorious dark background that we finally received after Years of waiting and it's ruined by these horrendously wide white background scroll bars Like really like this is not a Google problem by any means It's this is not something that Google is at least solely responsible for this happens in Firefox it happens in Every single Chrome based browser that I'm aware of the only one that does anything to Scroll bars that I know of its edge and they're still really thick, right? They're they're they're just square and sit around and you know, it wouldn't be a huge deal on a like a white background because they'd blend in a little bit But when you get into a situation where you use dark backgrounds a lot They stand out like crazy like what is that? That's the worst design. I've ever seen in my life Now if you download an extension that changes the scroll bars you can get something that looks like this and If you see there along the side, that's what the scroll bar should look like I mean seriously, it's still not great because the background's still white and you can change that I've just downloaded the extension now, so I haven't finished playing around with it. The extension is called creatively scroll bar customizer it's right there and The fact that you have to customize the scroll bars to actually make them look halfway decent is just mind-boggling to me So why are they bad and like this isn't even a big a browser problem Like I notice it most in the browser could I spend the vast majority of my time looking at a browser or Vim and Vim doesn't Have scroll bars. Thank the Lord But in other applications, especially ones that base themselves on like electron and stuff like that You see the same nonsense like these gigantic scroll bars Luckily the browser seems to be the biggest culprit when it comes to this kind of thing So it's not horrible. So things like discord and telegram seem to do okay when it comes to scroll bars But it just bothers me, right? This is one of those things where You don't really I mean, maybe you don't even notice it for a long time and then you realize wow those things are really freaking huge Why don't they go away? Like seriously? This is not a hard problem and The the biggest problem with it is is that it's not even like I said, it's not a browser problem a lot of the times these these scroll bars are Designed and implemented by the websites themselves So it's not easy even as if the problem is a consistent problem Sometimes they're bigger on some websites than the other sometimes on certain websites. They're square. Sometimes they're round They're totally inconsistent. So they're inconsistently bad across the board So I like how is this a problem? We haven't fixed it I don't even know really why it bothers me so much. It's just that one of those things where I saw it I was like that is Fucking ugly like it is so bad and the thing is like on this page here that I've shown you I guess nothing None is it'd be bad enough if there was just one of them, right? There's just one over here, but there's two of them on this page like some it's even makes it even harder to miss and I don't I don't understand why I don't understand why They're so bad now there are I could show you other examples But I have that plugin already installed and luckily that plug-in works on the vast majority websites. Unfortunately YouTube is not one of them. So I'm gonna have to put up with the scroll bars there So I told you this video was dumb. I can't help it. Most of my rents are done I can't help it, but still I just wanted to get this off my chest So in the comment section below, do you hate your scroll bars as much as I do? Do you have the same rational hatred if you do leave me a comment if you have if you like your scroll bars And you like them as thick as possible you can leave those comments below too and we'll have that conversation You can follow me on Twitter at Linux cast you can support me on patreon at patreon.com slash Linux cast before I go I'd like to take a moment to thank my current patrons Sid a Devon East Coast web Patrick. Oh Primus Marcus Maglen Jackson. I pool Steve by cyber guy Linux Eric Mitchell Art Center carbon dated Jeremy Shawn Odin Martinie Merrick camp Joshua Lee J dog Peter a crucible in dark band at six. Thanks everybody for watching. I'll see you next time