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Re: Ask HN: Software you hate but can't replace?

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Post by drcongo »

majewsky wrote: post #95
drcongo wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As much as they try to hide the fact, it is actually possible to join a Zoom meeting in your browser. That way you don't have to install a sketchy app with root privileges and directory traversal bugs.

I initially tried this when my language learning course had to go remote and the teacher insisted on using Zoom. But I ran into a dealbreaker issue with the web view: It does not have the grid view of all participants' cameras, and (to my knowledge) it also does not allow selecting the camera of a single person manually. This is an issue when I need to see a flash card that the teacher is holding up, but someone else…

It definitely lets you pin a single feed, not sure about the grid view though.

Re: Ask HN: Software you hate but can't replace?

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Post by guerrilla »

Tajnymag wrote: post #10
meristohm wrote: post #4

Hate is too Sterling for these gripes, but this is relatively the best fit: Windows 10, useful for some games with friends, because of the “nudges” to change my behavior, like asking if I really want to keep using that program, the magic-fingers messages on installation (suggesting I just blindly trust), and the difficulty to install without an online account, among other things. I can’t replace it yet, but the day w…

One of the things that keep me from switching to Linux on my gaming machine is Game Pass.

Hmm... Xbox Cloud Gaming works for me on Chronium on Linux. Is that something different? Wikipedia is implying that's the sane thing to me. Is it possible you just haven't tried?

Re: Ask HN: Software you hate but can't replace?

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Post by Winsaucerer »

hprotagonist wrote: post #107
lawlorino wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's bad about it? I've somehow avoided using it in my professional career so far except to make some trivial support tickets occasionally with other teams. It seems fine to me from this very limited experience, but I would be interested in hearing from someone more experienced with it. A lot of other teams in my company use it and our new TL has expressed interest...

i have one major complaint: it is horribly, groaningly, wretchedly, unbearably slow . So slow that it is a bad tool slow. It has a totally insane smorgasboard of options UX, lots of jargon, a horrible markup syntax, limited interop with git forges, and a host of other problems, but the real showstopper is how goddamn slow it is.

You’re being too kind. Last I used it it’s actually slower than you describe.

Re: Ask HN: Software you hate but can't replace?

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Post by bjourne »

Latex. The document object model is stupid. The Latex language's syntax and semantics are weird and idiosyncratic. Every Latex package uses its own weird conventions. It's slow. But there are thousands of packages out there for almost any conceivable problem you might have. And that makes Latex very very useful. But it is not well-designed software.

Re: Ask HN: Software you hate but can't replace?

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Post by jasonjayr »

CodeGlitch wrote: post #81

Android. When holding my phone up to me ear after answering a call, the screen won't switch off and random buttons will then get pressed because you know, I'm holding it against my ear. Can't find any options in the seeing to fix this issue. My wife has exactly the same problem despite using a different make of phone. How can Android fail at the most fundamental task? The alternative of Apple is too expensive for me.…

What phone model?

I had a moto z that used pogo pins to connect the top screen proximity sensors, that after the adhesive weakend holding the thing together, lost contact.

That was the only time I had an android phone fail to block input when I was on a call...

Re: Ask HN: Software you hate but can't replace?

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Post by Rebelgecko »

guerrilla wrote: post #112
Tajnymag wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One of the things that keep me from switching to Linux on my gaming machine is Game Pass.

Hmm... Xbox Cloud Gaming works for me on Chronium on Linux. Is that something different? Wikipedia is implying that's the sane thing to me. Is it possible you just haven't tried?

Most of the games available via Gamepass aren't supported via Xcloud

Re: Ask HN: Software you hate but can't replace?

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Post by vanilla_nut »

hadrien01 wrote: post #66
rchaves wrote: post #25

Jira, for sure, and it seems hard to run away from, almost everyone use it It seems like the only alternative is to fund my own startup, with me as a sole shareholder, just to forbid Jira forever

Non-cloud Jira as a workflow manager is pretty good. It’s intuitive, powerful, quite fast (again, on-premises version only). But my current company uses the cloud version as an agile project management tool, and it’s awful just because it is soooo slow. And they keep changing the UI, sometimes with good ideas, sometimes not, but because it is so slow nobody wants to use it to update their progress. For example I upda…

I have used cloud JIRA and non-cloud JIRA. They both have the same (99%, at least) awful UI and UX. They both routinely lag out performing even the most basic operations. They both crap out on me if I leave a tab open overnight and try to do something in it the next day. They are both miserable to use. On-premises is not some solution.

Re: Ask HN: Software you hate but can't replace?

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Post by antisthenes »

gaws wrote: post #103
antisthenes wrote: post #96

Windows. Straight up hostile to power users since 7. Too much of a pain to migrate to Linux completely and would have to keep a copy of it for work anyway.

> Too much of a pain to migrate to Linux completely How is it a pain?

Mostly making sure I have software on hand that does the equivalent of what my software in Windows does.

Migrating the OS itself and files/documents is a piece of cake, obviously.

Re: Ask HN: Software you hate but can't replace?

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Post by [deleted] »

JCWasmx86 wrote: post #7

MS Teams: What makes it bad: First of all, it uses Electron, thus it is laggy and wastes too much resources. Maybe it is just a pet peeve of mine, but I hate , if an application does not look native on my GNOME Desktop and does not follow any HIG. Another factor is the proprietary nature of MS Teams. If it was open, there would probably be some other client/some way to have a real native client. My preferred alternat…

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