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Windows 10
Especially perhaps if you were lured in to the free upgrade route from Windows 7, which means your hardware is decent but not the latest and greatest. Fortunately, I made image backups when I upgraded.
Normally we'd think of updates as the correct thing to do to maintain your PC. So I find it insulting that it is the updates that are breaking the system.
- It hangs at least every other day -- the pinwheel of death.
- It sorts files in some sort of weird non-alphanumeric order.
- There's no way to cut and paste a set of files. You have to copy them TWICE, once to an intermediate destination, then again to your endpoint.
- Right mousing on a file takes WAY too long to pop up a list of appropriate apps. This lookup should take a second at most. Adding a new app or removing an old one should update of the hash for affected files IMMEDIATELY when added and never again. This idiot check should NEVER occur on user time every time you right mouse.
- Finder should be rejiggered to publish a simple API so anyone can readily access all its constituent services. That way it'd be trivial for any power user to easily clone, reorganize, revise, and extend any/all of this obsolete malfunction-riddled 35 year old app, bringing the integration and performance of those services into the current century.
Finder has long overstayed its welcome.
Mac Finder - It hangs at least every other day -- the pinwheel of death. - It sorts files in some sort of weird non-alphanumeric order. - There's no way to cut and paste a set of files. You have to copy them TWICE, once to an intermediate destination, then again to your endpoint. - Right mousing on a file takes WAY too long to pop up a list of appropriate apps. This lookup should take a second at most. Adding a new a…
It’s a mediocre spreadsheet, half assed database, and infuriating WYSIWYG ... but all-in-one!!1
And it’s search sucks.
Emacs. I'm responding to the prompt in the OP, not the title. > What's a piece of software you find essential that you wish you could replace or rewrite? Emacs is the most essential piece of software in my workflow. It's probably not the worst, but it's the one where I see the most room for improvement. I lean heavily on org-mode for tracking what I'm working on, it's like my command center. I keep two emacs frames o…
It improves discoverability of hotkeys and packages for me.
Anything Atlasssian. Jira, Bitbucket, confluence. Just frustrating to use, poor UX, and slow. Business types love them however. AWS. It’s UI is honestly baffling, it feels and looks like someone made it in a rush with jQuery and Bootstrap years ago. It’s login and identity and resource management is confusing, and apparently you need a chrome extension which adds a bunch of complicated options I don’t really understa…
But then I read git, Docker, and Linux. Now I'm concerned about your approach to any of these tools.
For example Linux. There is _a lot_ of documentation out there. Man pages and arch Linux wiki just to name two that have a massive knowledge base.
Git. I mean holy smokes, I'm going to assume you've never used any other VCS because everything else before it was hell on earth (in my opinion, people have things to say about this). I would focus on learning some git commands and I think you'll really like it. Going straight into a GUI you might be confused when you have to fix a problem via CLI when GUI messes it up.
Docker - yeah, I see your point. It's not as apparent when you're trying to pull different architecture images. Kind of a shame. Maybe Rust WASM/WASI will replace it one day (kind of joking here).
Shared folders are a nightmare for version control, share point is inconvenient and slow. One Drive works OK and finally allows collaboration. Azure is good for some other use case (probably, never used it). So for a typical company, MS should guide companies to transition to use OneDrive and keep things in one system? No, single sign on, IT gets sold on how easy it is to manage all tools, everyone gets every tool. And for good measure everyone gets teams, surprise you’re using share point even if you don’t know it and now all your confusing v2_final files are spread out in 5 places.
MS Office and it’s UI inconsistencies (where’s the button I need?). While Word and PowerPoint technically have good tools for managing styles, the interfaces steer users to use manual tweaking to the point where I don’t think I’ve ever seen a clean document. And after a few copies and pastes between documents, you now have 100 styles that will never be managed again. Shared folders are a nightmare for version control…
Most users might fall back to manually tweaking with Office, but a clean doc based on styles isn’t even possible with Google.
Anything Atlasssian. Jira, Bitbucket, confluence. Just frustrating to use, poor UX, and slow. Business types love them however. AWS. It’s UI is honestly baffling, it feels and looks like someone made it in a rush with jQuery and Bootstrap years ago. It’s login and identity and resource management is confusing, and apparently you need a chrome extension which adds a bunch of complicated options I don’t really understa…
You are so right about Atlassian tools. I cannot stand Jira. Very often, it's easier and faster to fix a bug, then to update the status in Jira. It's clutterware.