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[Banter] What is the worst software you have used for its price?

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Refrigerator:

--- Quote from: MK14 on May 20, 2022, 07:38:39 pm ---Windows 98

Blue Screen Of Death.

Does Bill Gates agree with me?
Watch to find out.



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Win98 is terrible. I had the misfortune of experiencing it courtesy of some old program i had to run, which was built for Win95.(but it didn't work on win95  |O)
Fortunately Windows milenium edition worked out, and it was quite nice to use actually.

aduinstat:
AutoCAD. It crashes at least once a day.

cdev:
What do you hate about them? I like having a text boot process.

I use it all the time and nIve found its been improving in reliability during all the 25 years or so I have been using it.

The desktop could be better for sure..

--- Quote from: bd139 on May 20, 2022, 06:21:14 am ---
--- Quote from: Bud on May 20, 2022, 05:08:27 am ---Linux.

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Particularly the boot process and desktop.

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AndyBeez:
I would have to include:

Windows 3.1,95,98 - Nice try, but we were wanting the XP experience.
Windows Me,2000,7,8 - Nice try, but we were wanting XP experience.
Microsoft Office's Access database - The ODBC connector was so secure. NOT
Firefox - Not the original, but after it was updated-updated-updated-updated
Premier video suite - Not one computer in the world had the RAM or CPU to run this
Photoshop - why do people have to get so moist about this bloat turd?
Internet Explorer all versions - Just go and burn in software hell with the entire Seatle developer team!
Microsoft Edge - Now go and join Internet Explorer

bd139:

--- Quote from: cdev on May 20, 2022, 09:02:16 pm ---What do you hate about them? I like having a text boot process.

I use it all the time and nIve found its been improving in reliability during all the 25 years or so I have been using it.

The desktop could be better for sure..

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Well it's not the text boot process that's the problem. It's the chain of chaos that occurs when it's booting. This is all fine until something goes wonky. Fortunately I only deal with Linux nodes in the cloud these days where resolution involves just nuking the EC2 instance and another one magically appears, but it's a real pain in the old days when you're trying to fix a broken ass mdraid or hosed boot via an ILO or actually have to drive somewhere to unflunk it on a console while systemd (infrastructure level mr clippy levels of insanity) tries to teabag you at the same time. Boot process roughly goes:

EFI -> Grub2 -> three USB monkeys materialise holding a banana in the kernel -> one monkey inserts the banana up its ass -> other monkey looks at it in disgust -> third monkey tuts -> small fight ensues -> eventually a monkeys agree on who is who and falls on the right routine and a wizard pops up -> wizard invokes some magic happens with initrd that only three humans on the planet understand and the monkeys all disappear -> then init magically starts -> invokes satan -> satan starts invoking mini satans which fire up an army of consultants and sell the kernel an enterprise service bus -> the enterprise service bus starts sending and receiving messages instructing mere minion subordinates to do their job -> eventually this evolves into a booted linux system purely by coincidence rather than by design.

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