Intel has been pinging me a few times a day for months about a driver update for my Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. As both work fine, I’ve ignored it. But then you hit that final nag, and you say:
I know how shitty this was going to be; this is why I chose to delay; I can’t take this anymore.
I could have fucking installed KDE Neon on a new partition table in the time this took. And, of course, a goddamned fucking driver update needs a EULA for each, and would I like to install it in the same directory as before (which clues you in than you’re not, in fact, installing a driver update if the EULA didn’t), and would I like to use the same settings as before, and now I need to confirm that “yes, just leave everything else the fuck alone and update my driver.”
And then close out with another button. Interestingly, the Wi-Fi updater UI is XP/Vista era, while BT is Win95. You seriously can’t do better than this in 2026?
And, of course, in both cases, I was interrupted by Windows itself to confirm I wanted to let Intel access Intel drivers.
I like having control over my machines, but there’s got to be a better way.
And if they tucked rights to a firstborn into the EULA update, joke’s on them: I’m fixed.
Can I add to your vent that everything is way over complicated and annoying than it needs to be or should be?
The new MacOS has no easy way to delete apps. You used to simply drag them to the trash and boom, gone. It’ it would show a dust cloud animation and make fun noise.
Then it was you had to hold alt and open the app launchpad then click the little X icon. That wasn’t so bad, but not intuitive.
Now the apps are owned by App Store and need admin permissions to delete, so you can’t drag them to the trash.
Then the new updates, to push Siri AI, redesigned the app launcher so now there’s no like X to click and you can’t drag to trash. So how do you delete them?
Once you install an app, to delete it you have to go open App Store, click your profile icon, go to Downloaded Apps, click the Mac OS toggle, scroll to the unsorted non-searchable list of every app you EVER installed on any Mac you’ve ever owned until you find it, click an ellipse menu, click Delete App, then approve the confirmation pop up.
What the fuck?! It’s an 8 step process to delete an app. It’s stupid.
what? I use an m1 macbook as my daily driver and this is not true. i uninstall programs by dragging them to trash.
also you don’t need to use the app store. i only install software the normal way on my mac (disk image with a drag and drop self contained program)
even apps from the app store can be deleted this way. not sure where your information is coming from
Wow, when did Apple fuck up app uninstall? That was such a big deal to be able to just trash an app.