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Re:Ask HN: What software do you use even though it is terrible? by chrism238 on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @08:37PM (#39283408)
Teams and VMware horizon to RDP
Re:Ask HN: What software do you use even though it is terrible? by 1vuio0pswjnm7 on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @08:06PM (#39283186)
Graphical web browsers, mobile phone operating systems and "apps".
Re:Ask HN: What software do you use even though it is terrible? by jerhewet on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @08:05PM (#39283178)
Microsoft Teams. Because I have no choice. THE biggest and worst dumpster fire ever, of all time.
Re:Ask HN: What software do you use even though it is terrible? by mattl on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @06:24PM (#39282316)
Calibre is a bit of a UI mess but it does what it needs to do and well once you figure out the UI.
Re:Ask HN: What software do you use even though it is terrible? by BeetleB on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @08:03PM (#39283158)
bash
Re:Ask HN: What software do you use even though it is terrible? by tshirttime on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @06:51PM (#39282606)
sed
Re:Ask HN: What software do you use even though it is terrible? by ssss11 on Wednesday February 07, 2024 @01:51AM (#39285357)
Team is pretty bad but in a former life I had to use Oracle ERP… don’t do that.

Document Management Systems are also very annoying.

Re:Ask HN: What software do you use even though it is terrible? by ilius2 on Wednesday February 07, 2024 @05:15AM (#39286710)
Telegram Desktop. It keeps crashing! Also Python Language Server for VSCode / VSCodium sometimes freezer. VSCode is just buggy and slow.
Re:Ask HN: What software do you use even though it is terrible? by isometricid on Wednesday February 07, 2024 @09:22AM (#39288889)
I use an android launcher called Indistractible

it's crap and I hate it, but that's because it takes me ages to find the app I need unless I pin it to the main screen

music, calls, and I'm chats go there, but I don't get distracted by any other junk, unless I actually need a tool/app

Re:Ask HN: What software do you use even though it is terrible? by solardev on Wednesday February 07, 2024 @10:07AM (#39289451)
Outlook and the MS online stack in general. It's all soooo bad compared to GApps. My school uses it, unfortunately :(

And in general, anything university-related seems like a shitshow. The worst UX, terribly slow, useless errors, dumb password policies... it's one of those sectors that people might say is "ripe for disruption", but god, who wants to deal with thousands of colleges in different districts, states, and countries, each with their own specific registration pathways, etc. That'd be one heck of a crazy business rules engine.

Also, the janky shittiness that is Discord. It's like a super-heavyweight IRC with the worst distractions ever. It takes ages to load (even on a M2 Max), needs to take a minute or two to update itself every time I open it (even though it's just an Electron wrapper?), has the worst UX, etc. There are some alternative clients but they don't support important features (like voice chat) yet. It makes Slack seem fast and easy. Man, I miss the old simple IM clients like Trillian and Google's first chat.