Piece of shit software - Crappy software/apps/programs that make you MATI

[Wraith]

All right, Let's see:

Windows 10 has been abhorrent for me. The updates were so bad, and someone on /v/ said there were update blockers. I was scared I was going to get something that would screw up my comp, but on three computers the update blocker worked and made my life a load better.

Windows Explorer is the german shepherd which has been feed about five pounds of chili. It can't stop shitting on the floor and rubbing it's ass across the carpet. I've been using an older program, Explorer++. It's not perfect, but it hasn't failed me at all. Probably only complaint right now is there's no integrated way to have a dark theme and it hasn't been updated in like two years, but it's loads better than explorer.

Like others said, Abode is a pain in the ass for me. Takes forever to load and will hog resources even on a really powerful computer for me. I'm stuck with Paint.Net with plug-ins for now.

Microsoft Office- I've been with this since I think Office 98 and it just keeps getting worse. I think I have an old copy of 98 and 2000 somewhere too. It's such trash I looked around and found Libre Office almost perfect. Only three problems. Not enough themes, sometimes crashes during save but it recovers like a champ and it can't handle a super sized file, like thousands of pages (don't ask) unless you cut it up in sections. Past that, it's damn good and I love it. MSOffice can suck a bag of dicks.

For those complaining about UTorrent, don't get any version past 2.2.1, or use something like Deluge or whatever. Past 2.2.1. the thing is a trash bin. It's totally untrustworthy past that.

An old one, KMPlayer. Used to use this all of the time, but the damn thing became bloatware and just trash. I hope you like waiting for it to connect to south korean web sites while you try to watch a video and show you 100 top k-pop dance videos or whatever.

 

[Gamepad]

I fucking hate slack and any company that makes you use it

Switching to Teams will make you miss Slack because MS can't do basic features.

 

[Gender: Xenomorph]

AVG is quite annoying although some of the alternatives are even worse

Hint: Any AV program is.

The "Windows Defender is shit and WindowsOS needs antivirus" is actually a marketing ploy, note how no AV websites 'officially' claim that. Because it's BS.

Most free AVs are just bloatware/adware who ask money to do regular scans. Except for Malware/Rootkit scanners, you don't need enterprise level AV to browse the internet, especially if you don't use onion links or high risk websites. Thank the virus scare of 2000s for this trend of bloatware AVs; nobody is gonna code a rootkit to lock away your 2 years worth of family photos.

Microsoft actually has high tier corporate customers and their defender is pretty up to date. If you're not retarded enough to let "SOUTH PARK S24E00.exe" run with administration privileges, nothing can get past you.

 

[MadStan]

I saw the thread title and assumed this was a Microsoft dedicated thread.

 

[Maurice Caine]

MacOS is dog shit. Non-standard paths for everything ("/Libraries" instead of "/usr/lib"), a shitty filesystem, a walled-garden mentality throughout, a UI that does everything it can to get in the way of getting real work done and provides minimal useful tools out-of-the-box. Installing homebrew is the only way to get reasonable functionality out of a Mac if you need to use it for anything besides running expensive photo or video editing software on it.

And don't let anyone fool you -- MacOS is nothing like Linux and Apple only begrudgingly pays lip service to interoperability with OSS because letting neckbeards install unsupported software on their machines and saying "lol you're on your own" is better than giving them a reason to buy cheaper, more capable hardware that runs actually-useful software from elsewhere else.

Apple continues to release updates for their computers to this day that literally brick even recently-released hardware. Their own fucking hardware that they literally control top-to-bottom from design to manufacturing. And if an update bricks your expensive flimsy laptop, you get to pay $99 to have an "Apple genius" patronize you for half an hour before they wave some magic wand at it to "reset" the security firmware that got vaporized by the update.

I started at a new job last year and the company spent a small fortune setting everybody up with fancy Macbook Pro's, dual displays, "magic keyboards" ... the works. The devs all fucking hate them. One of them is so flaky it won't even power on if anything is plugged into any port, including the power cable. Every time he plugs in his external monitors (via a mandatory Thunderbird adapter), they switch sides even though he plugged in the cable in exactly the same port. And if he tells it to shut down and power off, it'll do so initially but overnight it'll turn itself back on and drain its battery down to 0%. Then it won't power on again until the battery has charged to at least 10%. Mind you this was brand-new hardware (i.e. we took it out of the shrink wrap) that's still less than a year old.

This was my first experience with modern macs as well, and although I've tried hard to get used to it and just "make it work," I finally got fed up with the fucking thing two weeks ago and successfully made the case for having them just buy me an HP laptop I can slap Linux on in 20 minutes and be productive with within the hour. Better specs too, and at a third of the price.

Fuck Apple. Grrrr.

Yeah but neckbeards don't use Macbooks or the like, they do those jerry-rigged 'Hackintosh' solutions that I figure are going the way of the dodo.

 

[moocow]

Yeah but neckbeards don't use Macbooks or the like, they do those jerry-rigged 'Hackintosh' solutions that I figure are going the way of the dodo.

They do if their employer requires it. Otherwise you're right -- they don't use macs, they use regular ol' PCs and run Linux on them.

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An old one, KMPlayer. Used to use this all of the time, but the damn thing became bloatware and just trash. I hope you like waiting for it to connect to south korean web sites while you try to watch a video and show you 100 top k-pop dance videos or whatever.

You might be pleased with Potplayer. Amusingly, its developer is South Korean. But it doesn't phone home, has a lot of codec and hardware support, performs very well even for 10-bit 4k stuff and it's been very stable for me these past few months I've been using it.

 

[Born to Be Wasted]

Or play those older PC CD/DVD games which the only DRM is the CD check, which you can easily bypass by replacing the original executable file with a "no-CD" one.

I dumped my Steam library in favour of those games and so far not dealing with those crappy launchers improved the overall experience for me.

I do it the fun way by opening the original game in a disassembler and modify the line that checks if a CD was inserted.

 

[Rungle]

I DONT WANT TO UPDATE JAVA FUCK OFF

 

[moocow]

I do it the fun way by opening the original game in a disassembler and modify the line that checks if a CD was inserted.

Ah yeah, the fun days of old cranking up Norton Commander and hex-editing the executable to change a handful of bytes to kill the copy protection or just screw around with a game. So many experiments, so many crashes.

I DONT WANT TO UPDATE JAVA FUCK OFF

What's especially nasty about Java's auto-update nonsense is how quietly Oracle slipped in its downright hostile new licensing scheme into a seemingly "ordinary" update.

On Linux it tends not to be a problem since practically every distribution that bothers to include Java in the official repos tends to maintain package groups with the major version number (i.e. Java right in the name, so you never get hit with an unexpected major version bump. They also include open source JDK/JRE implementations too if you want to avoid Oracle poison entirely.

On Windows and MacOS though, your only hope to avoid that shit is to install it (again by explicitly specifying the version) with scoop or homebrew respectively. Thankfully they disable the auto-update feature. If you just use the regular "official" installers though, the update nagging never stops.

 

[Short Circuit]

Firefox, the tranny derail of development is hitting it hard. I switched especially to Waterfox 56 when Quantum rolled out to still have the old GUI and extensions and for my configs to just work. Now Waterfox went full on CIA, Firefox is a botnet, and every fork is pulls changes from the mainstream Firefox so each one of them is fucked and cucked with Mozilla's terrible decisions.
There are zero good firefox browsers, Palemoon is even worse, I don't even consider it an alternative.
And also holy shit don't get me started on Chromium, it's the biggest tumor on the current software development. You are literally NEEDED to have Chromium on your PC in 2021, it's basically just as mandatory as a kernel.

If anyone wants to follow the comfy setup of mine, the least niggerlicious solution for me is Waterfox Classic (the archived builds from their website <56) and a second browser thats ungoogled-chromium just for web apps that run in the browser anyway (mainly discord).

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

Ah yeah, the fun days of old cranking up Norton Commander and hex-editing the executable to change a handful of bytes to kill the copy protection or just screw around with a game. So many experiments, so many crashes.

The thing all DRM feared.

god damn that's ugly.

Hint: Any AV program is.

The "Windows Defender is shit and WindowsOS needs antivirus" is actually a marketing ploy, note how no AV websites 'officially' claim that. Because it's BS.

Most free AVs are just bloatware/adware who ask money to do regular scans. Except for Malware/Rootkit scanners, you don't need enterprise level AV to browse the internet, especially if you don't use onion links or high risk websites. Thank the virus scare of 2000s for this trend of bloatware AVs; nobody is gonna code a rootkit to lock away your 2 years worth of family photos.

Microsoft actually has high tier corporate customers and their defender is pretty up to date. If you're not retarded enough to let "SOUTH PARK S24E00.exe" run with administration privileges, nothing can get past you.

MS Defender can also be very proactive in a way that is sort of worrying but also helpful, it might warn you about an installer because it's unsigned, wants to install some weird shit and is a completely unknown enitity but a day or two later it's fine, no warnings.

 

[Gender: Xenomorph]

MS Defender can also be very proactive in a way that is sort of worrying but also helpful, it might warn you about an installer because it's unsigned, wants to install some weird shit and is a completely unknown enitity but a day or two later it's fine, no warnings.

Pretty much any AV software is proactive and rootkits.

 

[Elysian]

Idk why Teams is such a resource hog but it makes my work laptop run noticeably slower.

 

[Elysian]

I’m currently experiencing this weird bug with The Sims 2 Bodyshop where whenever you start it up it takes like 5 minutes to start running and during that time uses up 99% of all of your RAM for strange unknown reasons so your computer freezes up and is pretty much completely unusable. Once the program is running the memory usage goes back to normal and everything’s fine, but I have no fucking clue what’s up with that. Someone else with 32 gb of RAM had the exact same issue and managed to fix it by rolling back either Windows 10 or their graphics card drivers so it’s probably a Windows 10/AMD GPU drivers being a bit jank issue.

EDIT: rolling back my GPU drivers appears to have fixed the problem

 

[Mike Stoklasa]

I’m currently experiencing this weird bug with The Sims 2 Bodyshop where whenever you start it up it takes like 5 minutes to start running and during that time uses up 99% of all of your RAM for strange unknown reasons so your computer freezes up and is pretty much completely unusable. Once the program is running the memory usage goes back to normal and everything’s fine, but I have no fucking clue what’s up with that. Someone else with 32 gb of RAM had the exact same issue and managed to fix it by rolling back either Windows 10 or their graphics card drivers so it’s probably a Windows 10/AMD GPU drivers being a bit jank issue.

EDIT: rolling back my GPU drivers appears to have fixed the problem

The Sims series is pictured in the dictionary alongside the definition for "unoptimized".

 

[Elysian]

I had to update the drivers again because rolling them back made body shop work properly but also simultaneously made The Sims 2 proper shit itself and refuse to run in full screen mode or load half the game’s textures.

Also SimPE just point blank refuses to acknowledge the location of the IKEA stuff pack for some weird unknown reason even though the directory it’s set to is correct and every other pack is located just fine. I run the system check utility on it and it’s like “can’t locate IKEA Home Stuff’s objects.package” and I’m like BUT IT’S LITERALLY RIGHT THERE

EDIT: I'm an exceptional individual and it turns out the Sims 2 repack I downloaded is actually missing the IKEA stuff pack, so objects.package is literally not right there - the folder for the pack is there but all it contains is the lighting file.

I just want to make my own hair retextures and then turn them into default replacements to get rid of the ugly 2004 maxis hair why is this so hard lmao

 

[Mike Stoklasa]

I had to update the drivers again because rolling them back made body shop work properly but also simultaneously made The Sims 2 proper shit itself and refuse to run in full screen mode or load half the game’s textures.
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Also SimPE just point blank refuses to acknowledge the location of the IKEA stuff pack for some weird unknown reason even though the directory it’s set to is correct and every other pack is located just fine. I run the system check utility on it and it’s like “can’t locate IKEA Home Stuff’s objects.package” and I’m like BUT IT’S LITERALLY RIGHT THERE

EDIT: I'm an exceptional individual and it turns out the Sims 2 repack I downloaded is actually missing the IKEA stuff pack, so objects.package is literally not right there - the folder for the pack is there but all it contains is the lighting file.

I just want to make my own hair retextures and then turn them into default replacements to get rid of the ugly 2004 maxis hair why is this so hard lmao

I have this old laptop from about ten to twelve years ago. Thing runs TS2 great. My current system, like yours throws a fit and smears shit all over the walls when I try TS2.

 

[Elysian]

I have this old laptop from about ten to twelve years ago. Thing runs TS2 great. My current system, like yours throws a fit and smears shit all over the walls when I try TS2.

Updating the GPU drivers to the latest version got the game running properly again, but I'm still experiencing the weird memory leak issue with body shop. It seems I'm gonna have to choose between actually being able to play the sims 2 and not having my pc throw a tantrum for several minutes upon starting body shop

I uninstalled the game and am trying another repack with a slightly larger file size which hopefully actually has all the stuff packs this time and will fix my SimPE related problems.

 

[Mike Stoklasa]

Updating the GPU drivers to the latest version got the game running properly again, but I'm still experiencing the weird memory leak issue with body shop. It seems I'm gonna have to choose between actually being able to play the sims 2 and not having my pc throw a tantrum for several minutes upon starting body shop

I uninstalled the game and am trying another repack with a slightly larger file size which hopefully actually has all the stuff packs this time and will fix my SimPE related problems.

I feel like I'm on The Sims Resource forums circa 2001 right now.

Anyone remever the official The Sims BBS? Fun. Old.

 

[Elysian]

I feel like I'm on The Sims Resource forums circa 2001 right now.

Anyone remever the official The Sims BBS? Fun. Old.

I'm not that old. I played The Sims 1/2 on my uncle's computer for a couple hours on a Sunday every week when they were relevant but I was a small child at the time so I didn't really participate in the community at all.