alt Hacker NewsThis is one of those "VLC is slow to start because of a bug in Windows" things. It's VLC's responsibility to ensure their program runs properly on the OS people actually have. It's LibreOffice's responsibility to ensure that their files print on Tuesday irrespective of bugs in CUPS (which ships with the Mac).
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braiamp • yesterday at 9:55 PM
So, Windows gets a pass for being sloppy coded? Give me a break. Every software must fulfill their contract with every consumer rather than consumer have to work around producers quirks. "All means are fair except solving the problem"[0]
0: https://yosefk.com/blog/all-means-are-fair-except-solving-th...
It's important that software behaves well on systems with bugs. (All systems have bugs.)