Ask HN: Software That Insults You? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Software That Insults You?

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Mar 19, 2022, 4:25 PM UTC

azth wrote: post #48

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Re: Ask HN: Software That Insults You?

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Post by scruple » Sat, Mar 19, 2022, 5:03 PM UTC

hackerfromthefu wrote: post #16

Windows 10/11 insults me regularly. My mistake seems to be installing it.

Windows 11. Breaking the taskbar was insulting to me. I left Windows because of this. I don't think I'll ever go back at this point, Valve, through Steam and Proton, have sealed that door for me.

Also, the fact that they decided to no longer support my ancient CPU from 2015, which I also find insulting considering that, as part of the Windows developer preview, they had no problems automatically upgrading me to a Windows 11 preview build.

Teams is also insulting for more reasons than I have time to enumerate.

Re: Ask HN: Software That Insults You?

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Post by andai » Sat, Mar 19, 2022, 5:03 PM UTC

hackerfromthefu wrote: post #16

Windows 10/11 insults me regularly. My mistake seems to be installing it.

Hijacking this to ask, can anyone suggest a Windows Explorer alternative? I don't need tabs or panes, I just want it to be fast again. (Using WinXP in a VM inside Win10 is significantly more responsive. I tried running XP explorer.exe on 10 but no luck!)

Re: Ask HN: Software That Insults You?

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Post by WallyFunk » Sat, Mar 19, 2022, 5:50 PM UTC

The Spotify iOS app. It's simply unusable. I can't navigate it. It's buggy as hell. I am astonished how crappy the UX is for a service as popular and technical as Spotify.

Re: Ask HN: Software That Insults You?

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Post by ralston3 » Sat, Mar 19, 2022, 6:16 PM UTC

Instagram. I fee like such a dweeb using a platform that will tell me "Whoops, suspicious activity" when I use the correct username/password. Like how dare you think I want to use this dumb shit so bad I'm willing to tolerate a spit in my face.

Re: Ask HN: Software That Insults You?

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Post by hackerfromthefu » Sat, Mar 19, 2022, 11:27 PM UTC

andai wrote: post #53

hackerfromthefu wrote: post #16

Windows 10/11 insults me regularly. My mistake seems to be installing it.

Hijacking this to ask, can anyone suggest a Windows Explorer alternative? I don't need tabs or panes, I just want it to be fast again. (Using WinXP in a VM inside Win10 is significantly more responsive. I tried running XP explorer.exe on 10 but no luck!)

KDE Dolphin.

Or Total Commander on Windows.

Re: Ask HN: Software That Insults You?

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Post by Leftium » Sun, Mar 20, 2022, 2:33 AM UTC

Carrot offers a whole suite of apps (todo, alarm, weather, etc) where this is the main feature:

https://www.meetcarrot.com/

Re: Ask HN: Software That Insults You?

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Post by forgotmypw17 » Sun, Mar 20, 2022, 6:50 AM UTC

I find Slack to be insulting whenever it tells me my browser or OS is too old.

Re: Ask HN: Software That Insults You?

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Post by andai » Sun, Mar 20, 2022, 8:24 PM UTC

hackerfromthefu wrote: post #56

andai wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hijacking this to ask, can anyone suggest a Windows Explorer alternative? I don't need tabs or panes, I just want it to be fast again. (Using WinXP in a VM inside Win10 is significantly more responsive. I tried running XP explorer.exe on 10 but no luck!)

KDE Dolphin. Or Total Commander on Windows.

Thanks for the tip, I didn't realize so much KDE software had Windows versions! (At first I thought you meant to run it via WSL2's graphical mode ;)