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[Banter] What is the worst software you have used for its price?
NiHaoMike:
--- Quote from: hans on May 23, 2022, 05:26:25 pm ---If I ask them to play an online game, they say they can't, because their open source NVIDIA GPU driver is still bodged on Debian.. an OS where loading a decently performing (but non-supported) binary-blob driver is considered a sin
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It's unlikely that an open source purist is going to buy a Nvidia GPU nowadays, AMD graphics drivers are open source and perform way better than the current open source Nvidia drivers.
mansaxel:
Early versions of SAP R/3, using the thick desktop client. Took one day to register one month of work, when work was 20 8-hour days of exactly the same billing code.
Any network code written or endorsed by The Lennart, especially DNS or DHCP related. (the idea of a init replacement that can restart processes cleverly is not a bad one, only implemented better by others, like on AIX, since 1994 or so)
Any license management software, case in point flexlm. (one can argue that it is successful, because its job is to prevent people from running software, and there it certainly is an overachiever.)
H-PUKES (AIX wannabe, with one of the worst compilers ever almost-bundled. Would have been OK if free. Was not. )
Solaris manpages written by people who would rather write a dissertation using Complicated Words than tell people how to run the fucking program.
Software without sensible defaults.
I've been using OS X since about 2003, and am still with it. I mostly like it, but: Every release they make it less Unix and more iOS, and we complain, and continue using it. As if we're slow-boiled toads. I need to stick kexts (kernel modules / drivers) into mine, and that is more and more painful, and often accompanied by "you should really reconsider that" warnings.
I have very few complaints with OpenBSD and FreeBSD. If I can, that's what I run.
bd139:
Regarding kexts I really think those need to die. Windows is doing the same to some degree as well. It stops the whole “relabel generic serial adapter with different vendor code” garbage. We have USB standard device classes and AirPrint. No drivers needed!
mansaxel:
--- Quote from: bd139 on May 24, 2022, 06:45:20 am ---Regarding kexts I really think those need to die. Windows is doing the same to some degree as well. It stops the whole “relabel generic serial adapter with different vendor code” garbage. We have USB standard device classes and AirPrint. No drivers needed!
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This is not for USB serial (but yes, it used to be. Now they've got all the ususal suspects in-kernel, which is second best to device classes). It's for arcane but very useful things like network file systems.
Ever heard of OpenAFS? It is a horrible concoction, slow and requires a level 7 magician juggling lots of moving parts in reasonable lockstep. It also is 1000x better than any other network file system. And since I am a grumpy old Unix greybeard, I happen to think that the current "API means a badly documented HTTPS-carried pile of JSON poo to a load balancer (implying broken caching as well, for lulz) because distributed eventual consistency is hard" trend should be taken out and shot, I think that the classic file system model still wins.
free_electron:
--- Quote from: mansaxel on May 24, 2022, 06:13:21 am ---Solaris manpages written by people who would rather write a dissertation using Complicated Words than tell people how to run the fucking program.
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well they are all Stanford alumni , so they thumb their nose at you. talk about an evil company.... giving away their hardware to universities so students get used to it and then demand the same machinery (waaaay overpriced) when they go to work somewhere.
One of the founders is still in dispute about a piece of beach he illegally owns (or doesnt)
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