Re:Ask HN: Why is Microsoft Teams still so bad?
by nl on Friday September 23, 2022 @04:08AM
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I've gone months without rebooting my MBP, and weeks without restarting Firefox. I don't remember the last time software crashed and I lost work.
15 years ago I'd reboot nightly because things were more stable.
20 years ago I debugged an issue in the JVM where it was deleting any file it touched (http://nicklothian.com/blog/2003/08/13/a-java-bug-worthy-of-...).
25 years ago it was normal for a computer to crash multiple times a day and wasn't uncommon for files that had been saved to get corrupted by a crash.
So yeah, very happy with modern software reliability.
A lot of things really, really were. Some weren't.
Generally speaking, I do think that modern software tends to be worse in terms of usability, robustness, and resource usage. But it tends to be prettier and have more "features", so that's something.