Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?

Re:Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday? by rvz on Saturday July 11, 2020 @02:27PM (#23804430)

Desktop GNU/Linux.

Too much of a cost to test for and to set up CIs for the distros I'm targeting. There is little to no paying users there because of the fragmentation. But again, "paid support" will have lots of choices, versions, combinations and edge cases to cover. So I listed it as "unsupported: use at your own risk."

Windows and macOS have a much sainer desktop for GUI apps to test against.

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Re:Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday? by AsyncAwait on Saturday July 11, 2020 @05:07PM (#23805993)

Except I use GNU/Linux precisely because what Windows/macOS offer is neither sane nor productive for me.

I don't know why people insist that billions of people on this planet have to be satisfied with 3 interfaces but it doesn't work that way.

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Re:Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday? by raffraffraff on Saturday July 11, 2020 @04:51PM (#23805839)

I've been using xfce for years and love it. It has basic but sufficient tiling and it very scriptable. With autorandr and hook across, it recognises different monitor configurations and automatically sets up xfce panels, docks and keyboard layouts (ie: at work or at home, pc105 gb, and when it's just the Mac monitor on it's own, use gb mac layout).

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Re:Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday? by maxk42 on Saturday July 11, 2020 @06:02PM (#23806500)

You should give Cinnamon a shot next time you're looking at Linux GUIs.

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Re:Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday? by sebbyy on Saturday July 11, 2020 @10:39PM (#23808278)

> lots of choices, versions, combinations and edge cases to cover

I think Snap[0], Flatpak[1], and AppImage[2] tries to solve this problem.

[0] https://snapcraft.io/build

[1] https://flatpak.org/

[2] https://appimage.org/

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Re:Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday? by lorisdev on Sunday July 12, 2020 @10:06AM (#23811363)

The irony of course is that you're listing three different systems to solve the same problem :)

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Re:Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday? by symlinkk on Saturday July 11, 2020 @09:21PM (#23807807)

Just use Fedora and GNOME. Linux is good but suffers from the Android problem where third parties modify it with their own branding and ruin it.

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Re:Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday? by literallycancer on Saturday July 11, 2020 @05:36PM (#23806261)

Are you using GNOME? Lots of problems just go away if you switch to something else.

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