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

[moocow]

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.

Made in a Chrome tab

Ironically despite it being built on Electron (i.e. Chrome in a wrapper) they absolutely refuse to add support for tabs (or multiple windows) in the fucking thing. If you want multiple windows, the only available workaround is to open the Discord desktop app for one view and the Discord web client for another. Last time I tested it, you could only have one web client window open at a time as well. Opening a second tab to load another copy of it pissed it off that resulted in some kind of misbehavior -- either the second copy barfs and refuses to work or they end up mirroring each other.

Fucking incompetent morons. It wouldn't be quite as painful if the stupid keyboard shortcuts weren't so mind-boggling out of the box (and vary wildly between Windows and Mac)

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.

The correct solution for NVidia hardware is to completely remove GFE (and purge it with a third-party tool like Bulk Crap Uninstaller) and replace the "consumer" video drivers with the NVidia Studio Drivers (URL subject to change because fuck you, users!). Their focus is stability and a lack of a near-weekly upgrade cycle. They also play games just as well as the "consumer" drivers (gamers unwittingly "beta test" new features in the consumer drivers and the stuff that doesn't break anything or adds something legitimately useful makes it into the studio drivers, which are updated far less frequently).

The wisdom of allowing drivers to auto-update in general is questionable anyway, but video drivers that get updated constantly are just the worst. Unlike a broken bluetooth or USB card reader driver -- which causes some inconvenience -- if your video drivers go tits-up you're potentially talking about not being able to use your entire system.

Since I've been riding the GNU/Linux express I've been exploring all kinds of Desktop environments and god bless it the only ones that have pissed me off on the Raspberry Pi are GNOME 3x and 40.

Try KDE Plasma. Not even kidding. KDE used to be a bloated mess, but over the years they've streamlined it and still kept it stable, useful and good looking. Part of it stems from Qt (the underlying UI/utility mega-library -- which despite its size and licensing bollocks is astonishingly good) getting better (faster, smaller, easier to develop with) but also just hard work by the developers to clean things up and improve it.

I'd argue at this point KDE has a lighter footprint than GNOME (which continues to devolve with every new version) while staying as customizable and configurable as ever.

On smartphones, it has to be Android 5.0 Lollipop. Once that rolled out, I felt nostalgic for Android 4.x already, you had an entire UX that was dark by default and felt like a top shelf movie theater. For all its quirks, HOLO was awesome and fit the name Android quite well only for it to be replaced by kindergarten art projects. I'm not the only one that hated Lollipop, it broke flagships left to right. Your phone could melt, literally, that isn't an exaggeration - Android 5.0 was EVIL.

I maintain that Material UI is cancer and the single worst UI "innovation" in the past ten years. Yes, it's even worse than the god-awful full-screen start menu in Windows 8.

Oh my god, Google mu-, I‘m sorry, YOUTUBE, music, is the most awful, petty, sticky icky downgrade of an audio application I have ever seen. Originally, you could search for whatever you wanted, put it on a shuffle, or have recommended playlists of similar tastes via data collection- kinda like YouTube but for MP3 files. Oh, and you could download the files too. And if there were outside files, it would be fine with it too.

Install Vanced Manager and use it to install Vanced Youtube and Vanced Music. It's a Youtube client that acts like the regular one, but with built-in ad block and sponsor block, background play and PIP, no sales pitches, and more.

 

[Trans Fat 41g]

Yeah KDE plasma is great, probably the best Cinnamon Desktop alternative available.

 

[Kiwi & Cow]

The entirety of Windows 10 is a massive trashfire and Bill Gates is a faggot.

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UI sucks, trying to hard to be cool, unnecessarily complicated

I really don't understand where you're getting at, the UI is mostly a boring monochrome and Discord is purposely made as simple as possible so brainlets don't complain about it being difficult to use. I agree with everything else you said.

it spies on your processes

If we're going to use that argument, then Steam is a spyware. After all, it scans your computer for which operating system you use and the computer's specs. It doesn't do very much with that data either aside from only showing games that are compatible with your PC.

PS: If the team at Discord wasn't so full of furfag tranny degenerates, they'd get shit done and implemented like features that people actually want instead of going onto banning rampages and getting ridiculed afterward. They even removed features like the ability to open your games directly from the program which was a cool feature. I'm old enough to remember that one and I still wish it was there for convenience.

 

[White Devil]

I'm old enough to remember that one and I still wish it was there for convenience.

Discord's only been a thing for a handful of years, are you 15 or something?

 

[Kiwi & Cow]

Discord's only been a thing for a handful of years, are you 15 or something?

Old enough on the internet. You can be 58 and not know what Discord is or know what it is, but not know all its features.

 

[Gender: Xenomorph]

Adobe anything. They own the market, but their software is shit and jack of all trades, master of none. None of the new programs offer something new. And DRM is a pain to deal with.

Apple software overall. Used to be good, now the OS is trash and their free software doesn't offer anything good. Literally no reason not to install Windows/Linux on their shitty machines.

Antiviruses give or take 2 exceptions, like Malwarebytes Antimalware and Super Anti Spyware. You don't need protection; windows defender is better. None of them claim (are legally allowed to claim) that they offer more than the windows default antivirus, and instead they claim they offer 24/7 support and recent scans. Fun fact; the 'Windows is the only OS that needs an antivirus' claim is bullshit and nobody says it anymore.

 

[totallyrandomusername]

Basically any "conventional" file manager, like Windows File Explorer or Dolphin. Who thinks it's a good idea to operate with fifteen separate windows, each of which can have only one folder open and all the file operations have to be done with drag-and-drop or right click menu?

Thank god the legacy of Norton Commander lives on, so we have Total Commander for doing all of your file management tasks quickly and efficiently, and Double Commander as an alternative for Linux. After you get all the necessary keyboard shortcuts into your muscle memory, using anything but an OFM will feel like you're working with stubs instead of hands. Not to mention that Total Commander/Double Commander and Far Manager have a high amount of customisability, so you can really squeeze out a lot more from those programs.

An OFM will essentially become a bare necessity for you to use a computer, because without it you'll feel like a monkey slamming a stick on a rock while trying to do the most basic task.

Microsoft literally almost completely a revamp of File Explorer, allow for tabbed folders (just like tabs in a browser), etc... it was awesome, then, right before they release it, they killed it completely, and no word has been spoken about it since. No one has any idea WTF happened. I think it had something to do with the switch from "Windows 11" becoming a new version of Windows compared to just a service pack.

 

[TheRetardKing]

 

[BootlegPopeye]

Yeah KDE plasma is great, probably the best Cinnamon Desktop alternative available.

I used to think this, but I tried it again after having not used it in a couple of years (and in the meantime, got 4k monitors), and was shocked at how bad the HiDPI support is in KDE. Cinnamon has a few issues for me still, but KDE is going to have to improve their ugly/shit HiDPI support before I'd consider trying it again. Cinnamon's HiDPI is actually pretty decent. It's the multiple issues it has with multi monitors that piss me off, but I like the rest of the DE so I tolerate it.

 

[teriyakiburns]

You deserve it for letting your content be curated up the ass.

I curate my own music library just fine, ripped from vinyl and CD, like the boomer I apparently wish I was. I use spotify when I want a radio without adverts and idiots talking over the music.

 

[Staffy]

Yeah, discord developers suck the slow development progress for even the most basic features aren't present, despite being years into development already.

I don't know what those guys are doing, it's either they keep focusing on the wrong thing or they're just fapping to their furry porn all day at work.

 

[IamnottheNSA]

I think this is one of those autistic intransigence things that plagues FOSS projects, it's a matter of principle now that they never, ever include a shape tool.

Thumbnails in GTK filepicker, anyone?

Meanwhile Windows had thumbnails in filepicker since Windows 98. How embarrassing!
Thank God for XDG desktop portal, now I can have KDE filepicker in my XFCE.

EDIT: And KDE filepicker isn't really that much better, too. It's really slow, especially when you have lots of pictures in one directory (or lots of different directories with pictures in them). The only thing you can do to speed things up is either turn off thumbnail view (which was the whole reason why I was using it in the first place), or keep the directory on an SSD.
Also, it's probably an XDG desktop portal thing, but whenever I tried to use it it always opened at the same insane default size, no matter how I resized it - 982x581. The only way around this was writing a shell script that starts with the system and sends "wmctrl -r" command every 0.2 seconds.
I'd say thumbnails are the only thing that keep it better than GTK filepicker. Windows Vista filepicker remains unmatched in how good it is.

 

[wes]

Avast
More like AAAAAHHHHHvast
It drives me insane when the "IT'S TIME TO UPDATE, NIGGA" sign pops up for the fifth time in a day.
NO, I'M NOT GOING TO UPDATE NOW, you're going to ask me the same shit again tomorrow.

Norton just acquired Avast this August, so I'd just drop it at this point.

Speaking of Norton, fuck Norton AV and its rootkit software. My parents bought a computer with it preinstalled and it was near-impossible to remove. It had one of the most aggressive "Your free trial has ended, buy now." pop-ups I've ever seen, and had tray notifications on top of its timed window pop-ups. Goddamn rogueware is less pushy and intrusive.

 

[Art Kassul]

replace the "consumer" video drivers with the NVidia Studio Drivers (URL s

For me that switch makes all the difference. Driver crashes go from 10-20 a day down to like 5, and their severity is lessened (fewer crash-reboots/crash-noboots).

Adobe anything. They own the market, but their software is shit and jack of all trades, master of none. None of the new programs offer something new. And DRM is a pain to deal with.

I wish they wouldn't have different keyboard and mouse shortcuts for Illustrator and Photoshop. That makes no sense. It is common to work in both simultaneously, and that always drives me mad when swapping toandfro.

Thumbnails in GTK filepicker, anyone?

Everything for Linux when.

 

[Cool Username]

Norton just acquired Avast this August, so I'd just drop it at this point.

Speaking of Norton, fuck Norton AV and its rootkit software. My parents bought a computer with it preinstalled and it was near-impossible to remove. It had one of the most aggressive "Your free trial has ended, buy now." pop-ups I've ever seen, and had tray notifications on top of its timed window pop-ups. Goddamn rogueware is less pushy and intrusive.

Ah, that explains a lot of things. I would like to replace Avast for something better, but I don't know much about anti-viruses.

 

[Un Platano]

It doesn't do very much with that data either aside from only showing games that are compatible with your PC.

And they include that data in an anonymized monthly hardware survey if you opt in to it. This is an inexcusable violation of privacy according to some people.

 

[DDBCAE CBAADCBE]

I LOVE Apple Pay. It works perfectly and has not a single system crippling flaw. It even comes with this cool built in feature that declines every purchase you attempt to make regardless of how much money you have. It’s brilliant. The best part is that you can’t fix it and there’s no one who can help you. Not that you’d want the feature removed. After all it protects you from making foolish purchases. Or any purchases for that matter.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

I don't think it's crap, but Blender has (or had) a terrible UI that makes it really hard to do anything.

 

[419]

Ah, that explains a lot of things. I would like to replace Avast for something better, but I don't know much about anti-viruses.

If you really have to, just stick with either stock Windows Defender (assuming you're on Windows) or just the trial version of MalwareBytes, but apart from that you might as well not even bother.

 

[Cool Username]

If you really have to, just stick with either stock Windows Defender (assuming you're on Windows) or just the trial version of MalwareBytes, but apart from that you might as well not even bother.

I have Windows Defender but it doesn't seem to do anything in my computer, I don't know why. I heard about Malwarebytes some years ago, I forgot it still exists.