That’s the Microsoft difference!™
Til it’s discontinued. I think I opened that program exactly once
I forgot it existed, because I stopped using the windows start menu after whatever Win 10 did to it. Been using Launchy or just adding it on my desktop.
I just use the run dialog (win+r) or search(win key and typing)
I think when I got Win10 (?) on my then-new laptop it automatically assigned all kinds of file formats to open in Paint3D, so I opened it once, realized “this is not paint” and closed it never to be opened again.
Do you have a few minutes to talk about our Lord and Saviour, Linus Torvalds?
Our Lord and Savior is RMS, who invented the concept of software freedom that Linus helps deliver.
You’ll laugh but FreeCAD did this exact thing to me on Arch and even worse it did not only associate itself with 3D files, it associated itself with everything that did not have a default set.
Weird Video format? FreeCAD.
Text file with weird file extension? FreeCAD.
Binary File? FreeCAD!I thought people only ever run Neofetch on Arch.
It’s fastfetch now, but yes, we do, when we are not checking for new package updates
Well I had my knee high socks in the wash that day…
If you think that is pointless, remember that whenever a program closed unexpectedly, Windows would offer to “find a solution online”. I have never seen that shit work in my life
I recently discovered windows actually has a set of far more specific troubleshooters which actually provide useful information about a problem but you have to dig around in legacy settings to find them.
you have to dig around in legacy settings
Windows can still be made into a tolerable usable OS, but it basically requires a minimum of 20 years of knowledge about where the legacy control panels, settings, and secret reg keys are hidden. Every new version obfuscates them even more and yet they are no closer to feature parity with the ‘modern’ control panels that barely work at all.
Windows asked me what app I wanted to open a .jpeg with last week… Just fucking pick one, it’s a jpeg.
You got it
opens WordPad
What’s paint 3D?
MS Paint.
Now in 3D.
I remember so many examples of windows doing stuff like this.
Specifically the most annoying I ever ran in to was Microsoft office click to run, like, as far as I understood it, it was a background service to update Microsoft office, it always ran in the background and would routinely eat up system resources, not a ton but way more than something like that should have been. It kept ignoring my instruction to not start on system start up, and kept getting reinstalling when I resorted to just ripping it out.
Now why, you may be wondering would I want to get rid of a program meant to keep office up to date? BECAUSE, I didn’t use office, I didn’t have a license even, I had uninstalled it in fact, but for some reason click to run was still there like a weed. So many other annoyances with attempting to remove other programs I didn’t want or need but windows would just keep reinstalling.
“eDgE Is A cOrE pArT oF tHe Os” y tho
Anyways, that’s why I replaced windows as the OS on my computer.
Anyways, that’s why I replaced windows as the OS on my computer.
Most of my Windows troubles went away with that.
(My work laptop runs Win11, no choice there unfortunately)
Companies will get there eventually. Everyone thought IBM machines were irreplaceable until they weren’t.
I wish I could share your optimism, but we’re so deep in the M$ ecosystem they’ve got us by the balls. Given how conservative our industry is and that we’ve got about 80k people, I think our chances are slim.
