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At work: without a hint of hesitation, Microsoft Teams and Visual Studio.
Do I really need to explain the issues with Teams? As for Visual Studio: extremely slow startup time, idiotic msvc compiler, yappy copilot who won't shut up, needlessly opaque "solution" format, moronic intellisense false positives, anything useful being hidden between layers of sloppy menus, and more... I have my own build scripts, compile with clang, and edit with whatever. I only use that piece of shit to debug and when it's time to commit, to make sure it'll work on my colleagues' environments, as I don't want to be the annoying contrarian, but it really bums me out.
On my personal machines: gnome. I have a love hate relationship with Gnome, because on the one hand, I agree with most design decisions and appreciate not having to spend any time configuring a lot of stuff, so it suits me very well, and on the other hand I get angry on the odd occurrence where I disagree with the philosophy and I have to install an extension which I know will break at every update.
I work closely with a company that uses Teams and every time I'm in a meeting that they organize I'm constantly shocked at how horrible that software is. Like I thought Google Meet wasn't great but everything from sharing screens to the audio quality is leaps and bounds better than Teams.
Teams is hot garbage. Just having it open in the background sucks the performance right out of your laptop. And I find the fact that MS tries to force it to be their portal to the rest of their atrocious apps to be infuriating.
But what do you expect from a company that codes their start menu with react native.
Well, agree on Gnome. The folks are blind, deaf, ignorant and have no idea what beautiful or comfortable could mean. Almost everything they touch somehow deteriorates. But it's free, so thanks for that.
"We made an extension system. You're not really supposed to use it, though."
For Visual Studio, the new release (2026) has improved the startup times. As for your other points... They still stand I'm afraid. Actually it got worse in terms of AI if you hate it, basically half the release notes were about AI this AI that.