What is the worst software you have ever had to use for school/work?
>>52697366
I pretty much hated Matlab when I first had to use it.
>>52697366
i read that the software used to program motorola radios is so ancient that most radio shops have a computer from the 1980's in the back just to get those working
how bad do you fail as a company to not even update a core piece of your product 30 years after the fact?
a Digital Audio Workstation called "Mixcraft"
I will pull my own teeth out before I use it again
KDE Plasma on Fedora 22
Crashed like shit when forwarding X applications, running a browser or simply existing. Irredeemably ugly as fuck with no amount of ricing able to save it, felt like a cheap knockoff of Windows 10 still desperately trying to cling on to luddites and XP migrants.
Tracker
firefox and microsoft office tbqh
>>52697403
there's plenty of nice ancient software out there
Microsoft excel and VBA. How can they justify using it for the "introduction to programming" course at my uni?
>>52697408
I feel you anon. Whoever wrote that abomination needs to be shot.
KDE aka GayDE aka shit
Maya
>>52697444
Not nearly as bad as gnome 3 when it was released
>>52697383
Fuck that piece of shit. I hated it so much, the slightest alternate answer would be wrong.
a Java ide written in Java that runs in Java called Dr. Java
fuck everything about that sentence
Lotus Notes
>>52697584
lel
BlueJ
never attended class
>>52697584
>Dr.Java
literal nightmares
will never forget this midget female teacher proclaiming proudly "feel free to use Eclipse :)))) but I highly recommend Dr. Java for thoroughly learning Java :))))))))))"
>>52697366
Microsoft Project.
What a fucking pile of shit, like all M$ products.
>>52697519
I bet, I always steered away from GNOME 3 just because of that ugly black shit alone.
>>52697623
This is the spiel my professor gave us
there was one dude who wrote all of his code in Jasmin/JVM assembly code most likely out of a displaced sense of arrogance and spite
I just did it and swore to never use java unless I really needed to ever again
>>52697684
For some reason, professors are really fucking good at turning people away from their course material.
Any Linux distro, I fucking fell for the meme.
Respondus Lockdown Browser
every school related software is the worst
>>52697366
Xilinx ISE
Thing is problematic as hell, heavy and unoptimized
had to install a Windows 7 VM because it wont run on Windows 8.1, licensing is shit also.
>>52697366
Visual Paradigm
>>52697762
>Xilinx ISE
Even the page is down now, they only know how to f*ck things up.
Access
who's doing the game jam?
>>52697711
>linux
>meme
Nice b8 m8
>>52697697
I mean, grand scheme he was actually a really good professor, he chose Dr java because even if you're a weeabo sperglord you can figure out how to run it
but dear god is it shit software
>>52697623
desu I too recommend Dr. Java for learning Java. No need to install JDK/JRE. Eclipse is great for developing applications but Dr.Java is better for learning.
autocad, photoshop, premiere, vegas, windows in general
any of this "enterprise quality" fucking bullshit that goes out of its way to be inconvenient to the user hurts me
>>52697366
visual paradigms.
They wouldn't let me use UMLET
Can't remember specifically buy it was a FPGA software suite and holy hell it was a pain the debugger was shit. Office 365 and pretty much any one term use IDE or language. Oh also teaching myself regex was fun (ಥ_ಥ)
>>52697584
Fuckkkkkk that shit
My second comp sci teacher recommended it, I fucked it and used eclipse anyway
any of epicor's shit
>>52697408
why cant schools just fucking use Cubase or something else that isn't shit
mixcraft is literally a joke in the daw world
osx
>>52698052
I totally understand the reasoning behind it for an intro programming class, I still hate Dr java
>>52697718
I have had to use that for some online courses I am taking. It is completely useless; what college student doesn't have a smartphone they can use to look stuff up with?
GIMP
>>52698495
This.
They charge a fucking fortune to come and set it all up, promise everything and deliver nothing of value. None of the consultants have a clue how to do anything outside the out of the box functionality and yet they sell the solution as being flexible and easily customised.
>>52697366
A database software I used when I worked in a grocery store. If was fucking made in VB6 and was being used even in the year 2014
Why is it that all these shopkeepers always have some old ass software made in VB6 being used for billing. They never look at the database anyway
The UI was terrible and you couldn't tell if the software had written the details to the database file or not.
>>52697366
Novell
>>52697366
Working the register at a Cinema. They used really old computers with resistive touchscreens. The tech stack was Windows XP and a god awful ancient Java Swing app as the menu system. This is SF Bio in Sweden btw.
>>52697366
Origin Pro 8
>>52697482
What Uni do you attend Anon?
the software we make ourselves.
Windows.
>>52697444
Matches my experience.
>>52697366
Adobe Director + Lingo
Internet Explorer 6. Because the intranet ran on an outdated version of ActiveX, and the sysadmins wouldn't let anyone install any other browser on the side.
And I was doing webdev for that company. In 2012.
>>52697965
>fedora tier contest
>where you win nothing
>not even fame and glory
I would redirect you to >>>/v/ but that's too retarded even for that board.
>>>/trash/
>>52697403
i read that richard gere put gerbils in his ass
JFLAP
Retarded hispter databases tier
like marklogic, mongodb, sybase? lel
>>52697366
eclipse
commandline git
>>52697383
Me too. That's the most ugly language on earth, and maybe in the universe. We were using it on Sun Solaris terminals and it was slooow as fuck.
ISE
>>52697366
iTunes
>>52697597
This piece of shit right here. The current version of Notes would have still been terrible 15 years ago.
>>52697366
I forgot what the name was but it was for school. It locks down your whole computer when you do any kind of work, so you can't use google or anything like that. Fucking retarded. There was reports of teachers using it to spy on kids through their webcams.
Mindtap
Holy shit it was a UX nightmare, expensive as fuck as well.
>>52697366
Fedora
>>52697762
Oh I hated Xilinx! My least favorite program ever
Anything made by Adobe, Northgate or Crapita. Everyone involved with these firms should be euthenised.
ITunes
The software on old bending machines made by safan.
Running on top of win95.
It would allow project names with like max 12 character filenames meaning all those names were cryptic as fuck despite the fact that win95 introduced vfat and had no problems with longer file names.
When doing small elements at decent speed the whole thing would crash and reboot.
After reboot it booted the emergency mode.
And emergency mode didn't load drivers for touchscreen controls which is what the thing was using.
So you were fucking stuck.
Fuck that thing.
Microsoft Access, hands down the worst DBMS I have ever laid eyes on.
>>52699921
>git
>>52697383
>>52697575
>>52699957
I like matlab, it is simple and graceful
A poo in loo prof of mine made the class install Rainmeter. It was part of our "desktop customization" unit in HelpDesk class.
Why they felt CS student's need two semesters of that shit, I don't know.
>>52701685
Everyone knows that, even your profs. Access is good for teaching the basics of a DB to people.
You should be using SQL after the first semester.
Windows 8, Windows 10.
Mathcad
Electronic Workbench
LogicWorks... a nightmare
https://c9.io
This piece of shit for intro to programming. Switched out of that class to the other professor so I would not have to deal with it.
>>52701820
>A poo in loo teaching the class how to rice their computers
>>52697366
Linux and its shitty terminal. And especially vi. What a fucking pile of shit, like all opensores shitware.
This >>52697711 x1000
>inb4 being attacked by a bunch of retarded toejam eaters that should fuck off back to their containment thread >>>/flt
>>52697653
0/10
What a retarded bait. Find a better alternative that's not an absolute abortion like ProjectLibre
>>52699910
this
datastudio
a horrible software package meant to interface with a bunch of lab equipment, used in physics/chem lab courses at universities that despise their students
>>52699600
fuck you, R is amazing
>>52702844
Ricing computers and answering tech support phone calls.
Better yet, she's teaching Android development this year and forcing us to use Basic For Android instead of Java.
Sage Medware
Makes iTunes look good.
Avid Media Composer
PEARSON MYMATHLAB OR ANY PUBLISHER ONLINE KEY REQUIRING BULLSHIT
>>52697366
Windows
:^)
>>52697366
eclipse is shit, in a class with 100+ sutdents no one manged to install it.
I still use the hello world test to initialize new projects as a work.around
MS Office
>>52704219
How can 100 students be too stupid to install eclipse. It's downloading and unzipping a folder you moron. This is bait right?
>>52697366
Marionette
>it can do anything
SAP, a maintenance/financial/inventory tracking system
shits the most un-intuitive program i've ever used
>>52697449
Had to use that confusing garbage on a budget Dell laptop from '02
>>52704474
>un-intuitive
>>52697366
Probably any program from the Serif X4 suite of tools. Absolutely gaudy slow crap that would chug as soon as you did anything.
>>52697366
Not really software, but those sites that are used for online homework for college courses are often times really poorly designed.
>>52699600
Kill yourself homie
I know it's not considered software, but I tried learning python on memecademy for shits and giggles, and I had a bad time.
(any better ways to learn python?)
Adobe Reader
Adobe Cloud (non-cc adobe shit is cool tho)
Chrome
>>52701783
?
What's wrong with git? Are you gonna shill svn or mercurial now?
BlueJ.
fucking algobox
>>52704322
It has to be bait.
I do not accept the premise that otherwise healthy, functional adults could be that stupid.
>>52703238
>vi
b8 8/8
>>52697366
XpressConnect
A program named coach for doing calculations for physics
>>52701529
And buggy as hell
>>52697762
Fuck Xilinx, heap of garbage that crashes and has the worst environment ever.
SimNet, motherfuckers literally email you the password in plain text to your email
arcgis... fuck that shit. qgis should be the standard
illustrator
why does it even exist if photoshop exists i never understood that.
>>52703238
what the fuck did you say to me little bitch?
>>52707653
One is a drawing program. The other is a photo manipulator.
>>52698495
Oh holy fuck.
I used to work in an Ace Hardware.
They use Epicor now, and it's horrible.
>>52697575
matlab not mathlab you idiot
ImageReady
>>52697513
underrated post. it's either an embarrassment on the part of autodesk or a testament to how good blender is, that a 1000 something dollar commercial program has serious competition from a program maintained by like 5 guys.
