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Types of programs that are irritating

dvd about 2 hours ago

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Sorry, a bit of an edgy topic, but i was wondering, what kinds of programs others think are the worst? I think these 3 categories in particular are the most irritating:

File managers: I've used a lot of them, I dislike graphical file managers the most. Maybe it is just the nature of the task itself, but these are the programs i hate the most on any system.

Web browsers: These are a close second. Maybe this is because the web is a hot mess loaded with DRM and whatnot, but I'd appreciate a more UNIX-y approach to "user friendliness" rather than the "pack everything in" mentality that's prevalent today. It also doesn't help that these do not integrate too well into existing systems. (at least the big ones, I've yet to convince nyxt to launch on my system) I also miss more static sites.

Music players: Most of these are full of unnecessary bloat and take up far too much screen space.

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Xpander about 2 hours ago

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Caja filemanager is very good, spatial support, tabs, information is shown on the bottom about remaining size, has plugins and scrip support for extra stuff etc. ofc by default it doesnt enable the full path as a location but has option for that so i can type in the path easily.
Thunar is also decent but not as good
Dolphin i didnt like at all, it couldt resize its columns correctly when resizing the window last time i tried, having me to use horizontal scroll to see file information

Webbrowsers. I kinda agree. but I dont really mind open vs closed stuff. I personally find Vivaldi super useful. Has loads of configuration options so i can configure it the way i want. It has sourcecode uploaded periodically but not for the UX/UI itself.

Music players. Don't use much these days but Audacious is pretty simple with some nice options and gets the job done. No bloat.

and what you mean irritating? what do you miss? what features you dont like?

I personally don't have any GUI program that i actually hate at least it doesnt jump into my head straight away. There probably have been few during my 17 years of linux use.
I do prefer terminal for some filemanager tasks ofc if i know i can type and tab complete faster than going through with clicks.

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