Goodness the file save dialog(s) on Windows - it makes it so hard to save a file into my personal space. It's unintuitive and you need to click through, I think a couple of dialog boxes before you get to 'Your Documents'.

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SteveNuts 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

And then you still have to wonder if “My Documents” is actually “My Office 364 One Drive Copilot Pro” or something

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marcodiego 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

And people complained that GTK file picker didn't have thumbnails.

	▲	MiddleEndian 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		Two things can be bad! But the GTK file picker has improved and now has thumbnails, while you can't really trust MS not to continue to damage its file picker

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dangus 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

In what application is it like this? I don’t find this true at all. It’s a completely customizable sidebar.

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gmueckl 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

Office has a particularly annoying dark pattern when saving a file. It hides the regular save dialog behind a tiny button in a confusing UI embedded in the main window that is designed to misdirect the user into saving files on OneDrive.

Many other programs do still open the standard file dialog directly, but even there, the local drive amd directory hierarchy is hidden behind a folded "This Computer" node in the tree view that is itself below the fold most of the time.

	▲	dangus 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah, this is the only Microsoft application I am aware of that does this, and I actually think that most Office users want to save to OneDrive and that it makes sense in this context. The median Office user is using it at work and your employer doesn’t want you saving documents in places you will lose them. Ditto for universities and schools that provide 365.

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4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

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