Unpopular Opinions Society

[beancounter]

I hate the minimalism/dumbing down of software. It seems like with every version of windows, there are less and less options for customization, or at least they make an effort to hide or bury them to make the interface as clean as possible. I want more control, not less.

The windows 7 directory tree is awful. What was wrong with the XP tree?

That's one thing I don't like about Chrome. I had to search for the option/settings button.

And for the Excel users among us. the excel 2010 pivot table..WTF?.. I know you can switch back to the "classic" style, but i just want to know which user group they surveyed that asked for the subtotals and totals to be displayed above the detail instead of below.

 

[Dropkick]

I hate the minimalism/dumbing down of software. It seems like with every version of windows, there are less and less options for customization, or at least they make an effort to hide or bury them to make the interface as clean as possible. I want more control, not less.

The windows 7 directory tree is awful. What was wrong with the XP tree?

That's one thing I don't like about Chrome. I had to search for the option/settings button.

And for the Excel users among us. the excel 2010 pivot table..WTF?.. I know you can switch back to the "classic" style, but i just want to know which user group they surveyed that asked for the subtotals and totals to be displayed above the detail instead of below.

I totally agree. I use 7 at the library where I work. I actually deleted it off the computer I use at home and loaded XP and Office 2001 back on.

I was using an old computer for my work at the library, but they "updated" my computer.
So the other day I'm using Word to make a new cover for a book on tape (old cover ate by dog). It kept double spacing everything. It took me 1/2 an hour to figure out how to fix this. -Why??
Why did they make such a basic setting so hard to find?

I was self taught on Word/Excel, however people still used to ask me for help on it. The new versions usually just had small (irritating) changes and I easily caught up, but now everything I knew is garbage and I have to start over almost from scratch.

 

[Freesia]

i use openoffice.org for my spreadsheets etc

 

[cornsail]

i use openoffice.org for my spreadsheets etc

Yay for openoffice. Me too.

 

[beancounter]

i use openoffice.org for my spreadsheets etc

I have Open office at home, but I have to use Excel at work.

Still, openOffice isn't as robust as Excel. The OO pivot table is lacking, and you can't do some simple things like dragging data or importing data cleanly.

 

[Spang]

All the cool kids are using LibreOffice.

 

[beancounter]

All the cool kids are using LibreOffice.

Yea, I've tried Libre. Unfortuntely at this time, they still need to make several improvements to compete with OO (At least the spreadsheet...)

Thanks for the suggestion, though!

 

[Freesia]

I got it because it was free. The laptop didnt come with spreadsheets. So far it is working ok. Has a few annoying features tho but thats life.

 

[Envy]

Windows 7 isn't that bad.

 

[K-II]

I don't mind 7. I think I'll skip 8 though.

 

[thefadedone]

I like Windows 7 and XP also. I'm also still using IE though and I know that is pretty unpopular.

 

[Cerebellion]

I have no love of anything Apple makes. I feel like it's overpriced and underpowered. One-third of the price is parts and software and the other two-thirds is for pretension

 

[kibbleforlola]

Wut. Apple for lyf!

 

[yakherder]

I'm running windows 8 now, mostly out of curiosity and because it's temporarily free, but I still find myself using the command prompt and a bunch of self created batch files to get around. I've always found point and click to be incredibly slow and inefficient. I'd still use DOS if the software and hardware would work with it, or linux if more software worked with it.

As for Apple... I have over time grown to like my iPod, or more accurately the vast selection of podcasts on iTunes, but I stop there, and even that took some work. I very reluctantly abandoned my Creative mp3 player so I could more conveniently access the above mentioned podcasts.

 

[Digger]

I was a diehard PC man until I went to work for a company that used Apple exclusively. I bitched and moaned quite a bit at first, but I'm here to tell you that when it comes to graphics and desktop publishing, Apple is where it's at. I'm totally bisexual now with respect to operating systems and since I've added Linux to the mix I'm just all kinds of cool.

 

[Envy]

but I still find myself using the command prompt and a bunch of self created batch files to get around. I've always found point and click to be incredibly slow and inefficient.

http://windows.microsoft.com/is-IS/windows7/Keyboard-shortcuts

 

[Cerebellion]

I get kinda pissy about being locked into iTunes when using any i-product. I don't know why that annoys me so much, but it does. They should let you use whatever software you want to sync your device and call it done. If I could use Foobar2000 or Musicbee, I'd probably get one.
My main problem (0ther than those listed above) tends toward the people who use Apple products. If I fix one more aspiring artist's (aka barista or waitperson) i-product and have to listen to the same spiel from the same PR pamphlet, I may smash something.

 

[Cerebellion]

As for my own systems, I run a modded version of Windows 7 Home Premium on my PC and Xubuntu on my laptop. If I wasn't a gamer, I'd be tempted to give up Windows forever. I'm not attached to the OS, but I am attached to Diablo 3

 

[Envy]

As for my own systems, I run a modded version of Windows 7 Home Premium on my PC and Xubuntu on my laptop. If I wasn't a gamer, I'd be tempted to give up Windows forever. I'm not attached to the OS, but I am attached to Diablo 3

I didn't think that such a thing was humanly possible.

 

[Cerebellion]

Been a diehard Diablo fan for a long time. I actually still have the original Diablo with the expansion on disc somewhere. There's something fun about clicking through the demonic hordes after a long night/week of work