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

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This is pretty much the opposite of software endorsements thread, for software/service/search engine that is crappy in general or has some shit that refuses to work somehow. Or just plain pisses you off.

I'll start with OBS. This piece of crap doesn't seem to be recording consistently, and the resolution is fucked depending on each game with display capture. On game capture, it never detected any games at all at least for me.

Windows Photos - TrY SaVInG a CoPy iNstEaD

hCaptcha - The one that's used on this site seems to be worse now and sometimes even with the right answers it doesn't accept it. It seems to accept answers that are wrong too sometimes.
 
Adobe CC. Any time it does any updates to any software or cloud up/downloads it monopolises my entire internet connection so nothing else works.
The name reminds me of iCloud. Someone installed it on my PC to get their documents, alongside iTunes. I forgot both of those were there, and they updated. After a restart, my Windows 7 would load at the startup for a bit but everything freezes. I had to go to Safe Mode and get it uninstalled ASAP.
 
Discord.

UI sucks, trying to hard to be cool, unnecessarily complicated (as if its gate-keeping something), screen sharing (sorry, "streaming") is broken and kills audio sometimes, everything about it sucks. Maybe I'm biased because Discord is tainted with a bad rep but I'm trying to be objective here, hopefully someone agrees.
 
Discord.

UI sucks, trying to hard to be cool, unnecessarily complicated (as if its gate-keeping something), screen sharing (sorry, "streaming") is broken and kills audio sometimes, everything about it sucks. Maybe I'm biased because Discord is tainted with a bad rep but I'm trying to be objective here, hopefully someone agrees.
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Discord.

UI sucks, trying to hard to be cool, unnecessarily complicated (as if its gate-keeping something), screen sharing (sorry, "streaming") is broken and kills audio sometimes, everything about it sucks. Maybe I'm biased because Discord is tainted with a bad rep but I'm trying to be objective here, hopefully someone agrees.
No, the coding for it is garbage (part of why they don't have a real block feature), the UI is ugly, it spies on your processes, and it's ran by degenerate diaper furs that support troons grooming teenagers. The only good thing about discord is that it makes it easier to spot degenerates by their avatars and profiles.
 
GeForce Experience and/or any other app with a custom UI stack to manage turning driver features on and off. GFE is especially egregious though because it's written in node.js/electron and requires a login with a fucking online account just to change your driver settings. Said account is completely unnecessary too since it's used for literally nothing but telemetry as evidenced by everything still working if you deobfusticate the JS in the app dir and disable the login check.
 
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CCleaner: Was compromised some time ago and now has backdoors. (Link: https://archive.is/UqWcU )
Mozilla Firefox: Don't use it,,, just, dont.
Discord.

UI sucks, trying to hard to be cool, unnecessarily complicated (as if its gate-keeping something), screen sharing (sorry, "streaming") is broken and kills audio sometimes, everything about it sucks. Maybe I'm biased because Discord is tainted with a bad rep but I'm trying to be objective here, hopefully someone agrees.
For a more detailed list of issues with Discord, click here
 
This might be too broad but ANY Microsoft program. Seriously, can they do anything besides fuck up? At work we use their stuff for almost everything, my department just started using some new version of their office package and it's just annoying. Every time they update their software they move shit around and make it look different for no good reason.

If Ford, for example, worked like Microsoft the 2022 Focus would have the steering wheel shifted 18 inches towards the center of the car, the parking break would be in the glove compartment, which would be under the passenger seat. The 2023 would have a legacy mode that allowed you to move the steering wheel back and forth between the two positions while the glove box (and parking break) would be moved to the rear passenger seat.

TL;DR: fuck Microsoft
 
Pro Tools. Deliberately has a completely different workflow and interface from every other DAW out there and is given to music schools basically for free so that their graduates literally don't know how to use anything else and struggle to learn anything else, so that it remains the "industry standard". It has proprietary plugin formats (every other DAW out there uses open-source ones, or at least *can* use them alongside their native formats, Pro Tools literally won't use any other formats and the EULA prevents you from writing wrappers or middleware). Even Logic lets you use .vst plugins and that's made by fucking Apple. One licence/subscription per device, and if you want to network them together, that's extra for the networking software (bear in mind REAPER does that out of the box, for free). And of course it has a hardware dongle that's notorious for breaking, and the software for transferring licenses from one dongle to another is broken and doesn't even work with older dongles (i.e. the ones you might want to transfer licenses from). The EULA gives them the right to visit your premises and physically audit your PC to check you've not pirated anything, and they do - people I know who it's happened to said they'd rather be raided by the feds. Stand-alone for all this bullshit is like $600, five times what Logic costs and TEN times what REAPER costs, or you can (be forced to) subscribe and have AVID hold your business hostage even more.

All that might be tolerable if it was good software, but it isn't. Despite the incredibly coralled, monitored and proprietary software environment, it's glitchy, unstable and a massive resource hog. It doesn't come out of the box with any useful plugins (Reaper and Logic are bursting with built-in plugins that shit all over their expensive PT equivalents). It doesn't export MIDI properly, it often won't render properly on some hardware, and Avid's technical support is basically non-existent.

Pro Tools stans just whine "but it's the industry staaaandaaaard", bitch it's only the industry standard because idiots like you have Stockholm syndrome because your brain can't handle learning a more sane workflow and you're too deep in your sunk cost fallacy to admit that you spent thousands on software that you could get better versions of for a couple of hundred or even for free. REAPER's free trial has no expiry date (it's just nagware), and a full license is $60, including the ability to install it on as many devices as possible and network them together to spread processing load across multiple machines. It comes with a plugin suite that is as good as thousand-dollar PT ones, a better MIDI editor that PT (though not as good as Logic's) and no hardware interlocks.

Fuck AVID. If anything, Sibelius is even worse.

If Ford, for example, worked like Microsoft the 2022 Focus would have the steering wheel shifted 18 inches towards the center of the car, the parking break would be in the glove compartment, which would be under the passenger seat. The 2023 would have a legacy mode that allowed you to move the steering wheel back and forth between the two positions while the glove box (and parking break) would be moved to the rear passenger seat.
Also if your car won't move, it might have too many windows open. Close your windows, turn the car off, wait 30 seconds and turn it on again. It might go anything up to 3 miles before you need to do it again.
 
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Calibre ebook reader. Takes forever to boot up, has shit interface and is cluttered. If I wanted to waste time juggling using formats I'd go to adobe. Sumatra is not perfect but at least it knows what it is and it does it fast.

Office365: It used to be the case that you could run word without the need to log into a microsoft account. Used to be.

Windows 10: is still a piece of shit OS and every week I discover new garbage like "compatibility telemetry" that must be manually disabled or removed.

Photoshop CC: someone already mentioned above how adobe still thinks they're the center of the universe.

PC game launchers: take your pick for the most unwanted "feature" ever created.
 
EVGA Precision is the most bloated, poorly optimized piece of shit booster I've ever had the misfortune of dealing with, and I applaud them for their tried and true business model of grifting gamerbro dummies.
I have reached the conclusion that anything video game related is homosexual, spyware, and breaks your computer.

starforce

steam (who doesn't disable the dns cache service to get the windows hosts file to work correctly?)

modern warfare 2

battle eye

fucking ubsoft again

mass effect andromina diversity hire facial animation dumpster fire

fallout 76

ubisoft #3 (I learned about this one from MATI thanks to Josh)

and those are only the things I have heard about while trying not to pay attention.
 
I have reached the conclusion that anything video game related is homosexual, spyware, and breaks your computer.

starforce

steam (who doesn't disable the dns cache service to get the windows hosts file to work correctly?)

modern warfare 2

battle eye

fucking ubsoft again

mass effect andromina diversity hire facial animation dumpster fire

fallout 76

ubisoft #3 (I learned about this one from MATI thanks to Josh)

and those are only the things I have heard about while trying not to pay attention.
Don't forget RedShell, Unity, Razer, and Kerbal Space Program

And of course the very well known and very disliked DENUVO which was one of the forefronts for DRM bullshit
 
Adobe CC. Any time it does any updates to any software or cloud up/downloads it monopolises my entire internet connection so nothing else works.
All updates inevitably make it slower and more crash-prone too. Also it wants to run a half dozen processes in the background at all times.

My post-close Adobe batch routine:
taskkill /F /T /IM Acrotray.exe
taskkill /F /T /IM Adobe*
taskkill /F /T /IM CCLibrary.exe
taskkill /F /T /IM CCXProcess.exe
taskkill /F /T /IM CoreSync.exe
DIEDIEDIEDIIEDIE
 
Any present-day laptop BIOS/firmware for making it a fucking pain to sort out booting from anything that isn't Windows. I just LOVE having my installation USB work flawlessly on one laptop and be completely unrecognised on another, whether it be due to some shit with Secure Boot, the fact that the USB uses MBR rather than GPT for the partition scheme and the former just isn't accepted, or some other bullshit brought along by third parties like Intel for whatever stupid reason.
 
This is why I only play games on consoles. Keep that stuff ring-fenced.
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.
 
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