[dm319]

Goodness the file save dialog(s) on Windows - it makes it so hard to save a file into my personal space. It's unintuitive and you need to click through, I think a couple of dialog boxes before you get to 'Your Documents'.

[SteveNuts]

And then you still have to wonder if “My Documents” is actually “My Office 364 One Drive Copilot Pro” or something

[marcodiego]

And people complained that GTK file picker didn't have thumbnails.

[MiddleEndian]

Two things can be bad! But the GTK file picker has improved and now has thumbnails, while you can't really trust MS not to continue to damage its file picker

[dangus]

In what application is it like this? I don’t find this true at all. It’s a completely customizable sidebar.

[gmueckl]

Office has a particularly annoying dark pattern when saving a file. It hides the regular save dialog behind a tiny button in a confusing UI embedded in the main window that is designed to misdirect the user into saving files on OneDrive.

Many other programs do still open the standard file dialog directly, but even there, the local drive amd directory hierarchy is hidden behind a folded "This Computer" node in the tree view that is itself below the fold most of the time.