AssholeDesign

7575 readers

1 users here now

This is a community for designs specifically crafted to make the experience worse for the user. This can be due to greed, apathy, laziness or just downright scumbaggery.

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

Buddahriffic@lemmy.world

1675

A light of wholesomeness shining in a bleak dystopian hellscape (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by TestZero@lemmy.world to c/assholedesign@lemmy.world

100 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Njudah on Instagram

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] WhoRoger@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

It's actually been the case for 20 years now. Same with lots of other devices.

Around 2008-ish I saw a Tesco-branded webcam for something like 5€. I was just in need of one, so I looked up if it's not, by any chance Linux compatible. It was, right out of the box.

Same thing with Sony Ericsson phones of that era. Capable of lots of things, like Ethernet over USB or Mass Storage, but with Windows it all needed a massive and annoying driver package. Linux - plug and go.

Same with Bluetooth and lots of other things.