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Two things irritate the shit out of me. First, the "wait while we report this to Microsoft" dialog comes up and implies its transmitting immediately, even for trivial issues, without asking for your confirmation and without indicating what, exactly, it's sending. (I guess that's the point of this meme. But a yes/no prompt would be nice?)

Second is that it does it for absolutely trivial things. Like, the crap point of sale software we use at work can be easily and repeatably made to go into an infinite loop state if you know how to do it, and you have to kill it via Task Manager or whatever. But then this stupid "we're reporting this to Microsoft" dialog comes up. Oh yeah? You're reporting it, are you? What the fuck is Microsoft going to do about it, exactly? Send a helicopter so Bill Gates himself can rappel down and bust through the skylight at the office of this two-bit POS software company, guns blazing, hack into their mainframe, and fix their code?

What a useless thing to show the user.

To be fair most applications don't give you shit till you launch it in a terminal. That's something I'd wish would improve on Linux. My mother would get pretty frustrated so I assume most average people would be too.

For example lutris recognizes your missing wine but it just loads indefinitely.

If you don't have all the dependencies for alacrity it just doesn't launch.

If you don't have all the dependencies for gparted on Wayland it just doesn't launch.

Most apps don't create error messages in the gui and that's hard for average users to grasp.

On MacOS if you click on the "Report..." button it expands to something similar to what you see on the left.

KDE's way is the best way

I have a question, how the hell does task manager stop responding and there still to have a crash report

The Apple one is basically the same as the Linux, detailed crash report with option to send to the dev.

me: ugh this program won't work lemme ctrl alt delete

windows: hold on lemme spend three minutes reporting this to microsoft

"Because of a problem" made me laugh for some reason.

If you don't even open Event Viewer on Windows, are you really so computer savvy as you claim you are?

only once have i seen the crash reporter in windows actually do something beneficial and report back an actual fix.

Well of course they need to report your information to Microsoft, after all the application crashed on your computer and since it's a Microsoft application it can't be the fault of the application (also why you don't see an error Log) so you must have been holding it wrong so they need your info to find out how you were holding it wrong.