Why would you ever implement a feature like this?

The few hours I suffered through using Office 2013, I wondered why my typing was sometimes 2-3 words ahead of what appeared on screen. Now I know.

What a bunch of complete morons must have designed this. It made me feel like my computer was from 1993, when computers were so much slower that typing could not keep up.

Again, why, why would you ever do that? What the hell is with all the user-hostile design lately?

I’ve used NoMachine for many years to control Linux servers with a GUI. I can’t complain really because it was free, but I will anyway.

They’ve since upgraded to version 4 and holy hell, is it terrible. You have to resort to hacking around to config files to get it to behave correctly as it did before.

Before, it was one click – you clicked a button and it just worked. You were in the target remote machine. Now it’s been turned into some sort of shitty collaboration tool that requires multiple clicks to access the server, doesn’t just spawn a virtual desktop as it should, and is also much slower. And the GUI to set things up is terrible. No use of OS conventions, no discoverability. It should be shown in design schools for “what never, ever to do” day.

NoMachine 3.5 was absolutely perfect for what it provided. Version 4 is optimized for something most of its former users never used it for and is incredibly painful to use.

Will be looking for replacements after the road trip.