Few computing-relating things infuriate me as instantly as a program that shuts down because I was *gasp* clicking while it was working.
In this multi-threaded, multiprocessor world, a triple-a program like photoshop shouldn’t just die when I click on an already-opened image while another one is saving.
Yet this is the most common way applications crash on me these days – they’re working on something, and I try to click on something else, or click into another window, or I’m alt-tabbing while it’s working.
*throws hands up* I’m not a true programmer, but it annoys the crap out of me that I get this kind of trouble in XP SP2, the same trouble I had in Windows for Workgroups.
Well, both OSs are both developed by the same company. It’s even conceivable that some of the developers who cut their teeth on Windows 3.11 for workgroups were senior developers or managers on XP.
Here’s a blank 10 cent CD-R, go get yourself a real operating system. ;)
You let me know when Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 works on said real operating system, and I’ll jump ship.
I’d say now. Isn’t it available for Mac OS X?
Granted, OS X isn’t free like my favorite operating systems, but at least you won’t have these sorts of instability issues.
In this multi-threaded, multiprocessor world
Sadly, most programs these days don’t actually take advantage of that. And even when they do, it’s not the greatest of support. That being said, Photoshop is one of the few that’s supposed to do so…
And frankly, I don’t have multiple processors (unless you count the ones in different computers, heh), I’m just saying that graceful failure is supposed to be job 1 in programming.