Ask HN: What is the worst software that you have to use?

Surprised it hasn't been mentioned yet - Xcode!

The frequent plain text display of code, freezes and outright crashes really makes me feel like Apple has a completely different internal tool for iOS/macOS development.

Windows 10.

Logmein Central but thankfully we dumped them a few weeks ago when they tried to raise the price again even though we haven't seen a single new feature in years. Client is buggy, crashes all the time. Client also does this thing when you're searching for a system to conenct to where the window loses focus after every key you press so you have to type one letter at a time, clicking to focus the window in between each. Copy/paste between local system and remote breaks constantly and has literally been doing that since I started using it like 8 years ago. Up until very recently it bugged every single one of our clients to update at least one every other week so they of course ignored the prompt after a while. Since it stopped being free they've raised the price dramatically every time we renew service (again with zero new features). Their support is a joke and tells you to go post on their worthless forums where no one answers you.

Wow, almost all of the applications mentioned here are of the multi-user, hosted in your local intranet, "enterprise" variety.

These applications do seem to be particularly problematic - the combination of being customizable, multi-user, with complicated permissioning models, and allowing users to store content in the application without a storage quota or garbage collection mechanism model leads to the same obvious problems time and time again.

Recently got a new HP laptop strictly for playing games. Almost threw it out the window because of the stupid HP Service Center. Even when you disable it in every possible way, it doesn't leave you alone.