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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 al
by 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 $application with Calculator. You can also find similarly absurd posts for macOS [0], with the fixes being very generic and applicable to any app (force quit, safe mode, update the OS), workarounds (use Spotlight Search), and one user error fix (disable RPN mode). And, oh look, GNOME Calculator on Ubuntu can break as well [1] (but to be fair, that one’s caused by the ridiculous Snap obsession of Ubuntu).
[0]: https://www.guidingtech.com/best-fixes-for-calculator-app-not-working-on-mac/ https://www.guidingtech.com/best-fixes-for-calculator-app-no...
[1]: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1128243/calculator-wont-start https://askubuntu.com/questions/1128243/calculator-wont-star...
- ly3xqhl8g9 4y agoI mentioned Greg Kroah-Hartman's interview specifically to point out a greater issue and to not fall into a flamewar: my calculator app is better than yours. Just as a mention, my favorite calculator app is a bash function: function calc { python3 -c "from math import *; print($*)" } 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.