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When I know for a fact I clicked something for it to function and it just doesn't, requiring multiple clicks.
I still cannot use special characters in filenames, 40 years of Windows OSes in.
The primary reason to this day as to why I have two monitors, isn't just because to separate things from one monitor to the other. It is because Windows task manager never is strong enough to take primary focus by being on top of programs or other things that take up the entire screen. It just sits in the background and I don't have access to it. Even when keystrokes don't work. I could feasibly use one monitor, granted if it's big enough, if it weren't for that.
This is program specific, but fucking AIMP, I love it as my audio player of choice. But it acts weird. Sometimes it'll prefer to stick to the top of my screen, sometimes it won't show, prompting me to find it and other random annoying things about it. And I hate it too when it goes to the next song and this banner slowly fades in at the top of my screen to tell me what song it is and it also just pauses everything for a moment just for that. There's other ways I can tell what you're playing, I don't need that.
And my final but above-all peeve is when the focus is taken away from my cursor. Like when things just take the function of my cursor when I'm doing something else, when I'm not expecting it to. Like when I install things, I know something will pop up to distract me, I expect that in cases of installing drivers or a prompt window telling me something is done. I just hate it when random non-virus related events take over my cursor when I'm doing something. I wish there comes a day, when you have the option to have a click-free way to prioritize what windows or programs you want to focus on, than something else hogging the attention.
That's a good thing IMO. The benefits of using special characters in this specific case are slim, but the repercussions for every single programming language that ever touches file or folder names (i.e. basically all of them) are pretty big.
Like seriously, I'd wager that entire companies might crawl to a stop because Bernice in accounting put a "/" into some important excel file name.