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[Banter] What is the worst software you have used for its price?
james_s:
--- Quote from: VK3DRB on May 19, 2022, 01:19:11 pm ---iTunes. Even being free, it is way overpriced.
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I quite liked iTunes back around 2005, then they completely ruined it over the next decade or so, worse with every version.
tszaboo:
--- Quote from: Gregg on May 19, 2022, 07:57:00 pm ---SAP accounting program :bullshit:
Over bloated and ridiculous; it would take a full day to do what should have taken 15 minutes |O
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Actually, true. Although I have no idea how much actually SAP costs, but guessing a lot, since they send consultants to set up the software constantly.
bd139:
--- Quote from: james_s on May 19, 2022, 10:30:37 pm ---
--- Quote from: VK3DRB on May 19, 2022, 01:19:11 pm ---iTunes. Even being free, it is way overpriced.
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I quite liked iTunes back around 2005, then they completely ruined it over the next decade or so, worse with every version.
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It actually doesn't exist on the Mac now. Only windows users have to suffer it :-DD
Mac users have Apple Music which is, well 90% less buggy.
free_electron:
All the Linux flavors and the whole ecosystem around it. fork fork fork , but never fix the root issues. There 315 different versions all with different user interface, different ways to install applications , different package managers. install one thing , break another .
I'm not talking open source in general. there are good open source programs. Inkscape comes to mind.
Gerhard_dk4xp:
HP Pascal for the 8085 / Z80.
I wrote a program to sweep the beam of an ultrasonics phase array
and control it via GPIB/488 in Turbo Pascal. So far, so good. Really good.
I expected a day to compile it on the HP16000 mini computer with
in-circuit emulator. That turned out to be 4 weeks. We must have been
the (paying) alpha tester and 1st. customer ever.
It was unable to parse legal standard Pascal source and generated wrong
code for the rest. In effect, I re-wrote my program in assembler.
BTW, happy user of Linux Mint here. RedHat was nice, too.
We ran a system of >10 million lines of source code on it, a mix
of many languages.
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