What software (as in: category of) do you actually care about?

operating systems, music DAWs

>>105558571 (OP)
My official politics on this issue is have sex with it.

I don't really care about entire categories of software

>>105558571 (OP)
Define "care".

>>105558571 (OP)
Games I guess.
It's not that I play a lot of them or don't use other software.
It's just that I expect tools to simply work and let me do what I want to do and not grab my attention.

>>105558571 (OP)
File managers. Linux needs to do some work.

Excel

>>105558571 (OP)
*Jerry opens his door to leave his apartment*
*Newman is standing at the door in silence*
Jerry: Hello Newman.
Newman: Hello Jerry. What software (as in: category of) do you actually care about?
Jerry: Well I like to use a word processor, notepad, tape recorder, all for my work as a comedian.
*Newman smiles*
Jerry: Why? What do you like?
Newman: Nothing.
Jerry: I'll bet it's an email client so you don't have to do your job.
*laugh track*
*Newman stops smiling*
Newman: I'm taking you off my address book and putting you in my spam list. Good day, Jerry.
*laugh track*
*freeze frame*
Executive Producer Larry David

>>105558942
tranime horder manager

>>105558942
Try the "Finder" in macos and you'll be grateful for what Linux distros call file managers.

>>105559178
At least thumbnails work in Finder.

Operating systems, desktop software, games

Jackie Chiles bursts in, leather briefcase in hand, pointing a legal pad like a sword.

JACKIE CHILES
(booming)
Ladies and gentlemen, we have a tort! A digital-age travesty! Kramer, my friend, this Emacs debacle is outrageous, preposterous, insidious!

JERRY
Jackie, you’re suing over a text editor?

JACKIE CHILES
(leans in)
Not just any editor, Jerry! This Emacs—this behemoth—requires users to press the CONTROL key four thousand times a day! It’s a pinky death trap! And the creator, this "RMS" Stallman character? He knew!

KRAMER
(nodding feverishly)
He’s an anarchist, Jerry! A free-software radical! No warnings, no support hotline—just a manifesto and a 500-key shortcut list! My pinky’s a casualty of his ideology!

GEORGE
(squinting)
Can you even sue for that? It’s free software!

JACKIE CHILES
(wagging finger)
Ah-ha! "Free" doesn’t mean "immune to liability"! If I give you a "free" piranha and it eats your toe, that’s negligence! Emacs is a digital piranha, and it’s nibbling on Kramer’s metacarpals!

KRAMER
(ignoring them, flexing his pinky)
I can’t even hitchhike anymore, Jackie! The thumb’s fine, but the pinky? It’s my signature finger!

Newman slinks over.

NEWMAN
(smug)
Heard about the lawsuit, Kramer. I’ve been using Vim for years. Superior efficiency. No pinky strain.

KRAMER
(outraged)
Vim? That’s like trading a tank for a tricycle! Emacs is the Cadillac of text editors!

>>105559391
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>>105558571 (OP)
Emulators, OSs

Visual novels

>>105558571 (OP)
handwritten recursive descent parsers
currently working with various ml tools to obviate the need for the handwritten part

>>105558571 (OP)
The one that makes me money.

>>105558571 (OP)
Scientific software (but only in spirit, real programmers need to go fix that shit and make it usable), automation software, compilers, and data bases (in the extendrd sense)

>>105560850
Based, but I think there is no getting around handwriting it. It simply gives more control and power and it's easy to do. It's also easier than writing a metatool which makes bootsteapping easier.

>>105558571 (OP)
Proof assistants.

>>105558571 (OP)
Less and less every day, at this point I can't think of any sort offhand that matters to me at all.

>>105558630
>have sex with it.
based

>>105558571 (OP)
VSTs and emulators

>>105558571 (OP)
Programming languages.