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

Google Chrome. (I use Chrome because all of the other browsers are even more annoying to me.)

Technically speaking most of the code that seriously annoys me runs inside my browser, but IMO it was never realistic to hope that the myriad creators of individual web pages or web sites would collectively create a good experience for me: my only hope was for the makers of browsers to make choices different from the choices they actually made.

Clarification: the web browser makes a pretty good framework for creating user interfaces, IMO, but it is a bad way for an end user with preferences sufficiently similar to mine to access writing on the internet. Sadly it is the only way to access most of the writings on the internet.

Written documents can be extremely simple: just a sequence of characters in some well-known encoding, but most of the actual documents of interest to me on the internet are essentially programs that require execution in what is essentially a "virtual machine" as complex as any general-purpose operating system.

If you are willing to fix stuff by yourself I can recommend Babun[1]. It's unmaintained but still works. Its biggest problem nowadays is running Cygwin update - some urls are obsolete and you need to substitute them.

[1] https://babun.github.io/

* BMC Remedy (Oh my god. Utterly disgusting experience.)

* Atlassian JIRA (never really got the hang of it. Overcomplicated.)

* Workday (the web app is sloooooow.)

* MRemoteNG (The best SSH client on Windows. Also the worst. Alt + Tab navigation annoys me to hell!)

* iTunes on Windows (Why is it like the way it is even in 2020!?)

If you want more complaints, and well informed ones at that, read https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/containers-future-ian-eyberg/.

I particularly love the quote, The kernel developers view of the docker community is that in the rare case they can actually formulate the question correctly they usually don't understand the answer.

There is only so much that you can say to clarify things to someone who is thinking about everything wrong and doesn't realize it. :-(

I find macOS to be much more pleasant than Windows.

> If you don't explicitly minimize the window and open another program, the other window is hidden. Where is it? How can I open it? Yes by minimizing every window until I have found mine.

I don't understand exactly what you mean.

> what happens if you have several windows open of that app?

One of these:

• Right-click/Control-click on the Dock icon

• Check the Windows menu of the app. Minimized windows will have a Diamond

• Press F3 to open Mission Control.

• Press Control+F3 to see all windows of the currently focused app.

• Press Alt+F3 to open Mission Control settings and configure them to your liking, along with setting Hot Corners for showing application windows etc.

• If you "Group windows by application" and have a mouse with a scroll wheel, you can use scroll the wheel when hovering over an app's window, to "spread" that windows stack.

• Press Option+Command+H to hide (not minimize) all windows except the active app.