Ask HN: Examples of software where the new version is worse than the old? I bet there are some good ones. |
Ask HN: Examples of software where the new version is worse than the old? I bet there are some good ones. |
I can’t get over how ugly it looks. I guess it’s supposed to be transparent but often it just looks greyed out and edges of things look like they anti-aliased the images, took the residual, and sharpened the aliases just to make everything be surrounded by a distracting halo.
I appreciate the idea of having multiple windows on iPad (Win 8 had that how long ago?) but I was playing Arknights and the main UI trope in Arknights is you drag and drop your ‘operators’ from the edge onto the playing field and when I do that the whole window comes loose so I disabled that feature.
I feel Mac OS X peaked with Snow Leopard, though it wasn’t until Catalina when I started refusing to upgrade my personal Macs, which remained at Mojave until I retired them from daily driving.
I also remember SimCity (the successor to SimCity 4) and SimCity Societies not being well-received. Sadly the SimCity franchise is dead; I enjoyed SimCity 2000 and 4 (I never played 3000).
The fourth generation of Pokémon games, in my opinion, was the high water mark of the franchise’s main series games, peaking at Heart Gold/Soul Silver.
Office after maybe 2000?
CentOS after 8
Software: OmniGraffle 7 <-- OmniGraffle 6
Book: SICP (I like the 2nd edition best, now the latest based on Python is an aesthetic crime IMHO.)
For software, many programs reach the bloat status, of course there is the old joke about any system growing until it can send email (or having its own embedded LISP variant ;-).
Result, when "idle", the cpu was at 100%. Just imagine this.
And Aperture 3.6 to anything recommended to replace it.
But Windows 10 just went down the drain. In all possible ways. It still does today with Windows 10+1.
But Windows ME and XP 64 bits were just unusable. Vista was kinda wrong move because load all the crap at boot was a terrible idea.
But Micro$oft software, we should list a few good products because there are far more bad ones than good.
Good? Some games, DirectX, Visual Studios, .net. More bad? Almost everything else.
Still worst Micro$oft program ever: explorer.exe. Period.
I thought a tablet + bluetooth mouse + bluetooth keyboard + cheap plastic clip - trackpad made a great laptop but I think I was the only one if you don't count Balmer and Sinofsky.
I don't know if synaptics had some patent they used to force everybody in the industry to make laptops with trackpads [1] or if the flight attendant's union got too confused about whether you can stow a 2-in-1 in the pocket in front of your seat, but it just didn't fly with most people.
[1] in cases where you couldn't use the mouse fall back to tablet mode