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It was indeed the second link I clicked after a summary search. Personally, I have not used the Windows Calculator app in a decade or so, but I blame Microsoft

It was indeed the second link I clicked after a summary search. Personally, I have not used the Windows Calculator app in a decade or so, but I blame Microsoft for other thousands of hours of pointless eye strain trying to fix and get work done through their applications. Still, I don't think one is unreasonable to expect that a calculator app should never crash after an update or be a nuisance if it's made by a 1.89 trillion USD market cap company with over 100,000 software engineers on payroll and aspirations to open the new world of statistically learned agents. Nevertheless, as pointed out by Greg Kroah-Hartman and others, our stack is extremely feeble, so it becomes reasonable to expect the unreasonable from time to time, even with somewhat trivial applications.

Kwpolska 4y ago
As I said, I don’t think many people experienced Windows Calculator not working. Is it completely impossible? No, because computers are weird sometimes. But all three articles are just spam. The writers of those articles definitely did not experience nor fix Calculator crashing, they just took their template “how to fix [modern Windows] $application” post and replaced $application with Calculator. You can also find similarly absurd posts for macOS [0], with the fixes being very generic and applicable to any app (force quit, safe mode, update the OS), workarounds (use Spotlight Search), and one user error fix (disable RPN mode). And, oh look, GNOME Calculator on Ubuntu can break as well [1] (but to be fair, that one’s caused by the ridiculous Snap obsession of Ubuntu). [0]: https://www.guidingtech.com/best-fixes-for-calculator-app-not-working-on-mac/ https://www.guidingtech.com/best-fixes-for-calculator-app-no... [1]: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1128243/calculator-wont-start https://askubuntu.com/questions/1128243/calculator-wont-star...
- ly3xqhl8g9 4y ago
  I mentioned Greg Kroah-Hartman's interview specifically to point out a greater issue and to not fall into a flamewar: my calculator app is better than yours. Just as a mention, my favorite calculator app is a bash function: function calc { python3 -c "from math import *; print($*)" } and then simply call: calc "5 + cos(pi)" it never fails, even if computers are weird, and there are no spam articles on how to fix it since there is nothing to fix.

Kwpolska 4y ago

As I said, I don’t think many people experienced Windows Calculator not working. Is it completely impossible? No, because computers are weird sometimes. But all three articles are just spam. The writers of those articles definitely did not experience nor fix Calculator crashing, they just took their template “how to fix [modern Windows] $application” post and replaced $application with Calculator. You can also find similarly absurd posts for macOS [0], with the fixes being very generic and applicable to any app (force quit, safe mode, update the OS), workarounds (use Spotlight Search), and one user error fix (disable RPN mode). And, oh look, GNOME Calculator on Ubuntu can break as well [1] (but to be fair, that one’s caused by the ridiculous Snap obsession of Ubuntu). [0]: https://www.guidingtech.com/best-fixes-for-calculator-app-not-working-on-mac/ https://www.guidingtech.com/best-fixes-for-calculator-app-no... [1]: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1128243/calculator-wont-start https://askubuntu.com/questions/1128243/calculator-wont-star...

ly3xqhl8g9 4y ago
I mentioned Greg Kroah-Hartman's interview specifically to point out a greater issue and to not fall into a flamewar: my calculator app is better than yours. Just as a mention, my favorite calculator app is a bash function: function calc { python3 -c "from math import *; print($*)" } and then simply call: calc "5 + cos(pi)" it never fails, even if computers are weird, and there are no spam articles on how to fix it since there is nothing to fix.