[mmastrac]

I bought a fantastic curved Samsung monitor and it supports reading from the port that tells you the current input but not setting it. It also has the worst possible input switcher that cycles until it finds a valid input.

I wish it were easier to hack on monitor firmware. I'd love to improve it.

[causi]

It's quite infuriating when you have a display that changes input if it's not receiving and a source that switches off unless it's told the display is showing. You end up having to play a timing game to get both devices on at the same time before one of them turns off or changes.

[xcambar]

I cannot guarantee I'd react quietly nor patiently should I be confronted to this.

I cannot guarantee that. At. All.

[freen]

I’ll never buy anything from Samsung again. The software on their otherwise delightful hardware is absolute crap.

[Damogran6]

Or their dryers...or their dishwashers...I hear their phones are okay...It sucks when a multinational conglomerate has a sketchy quality issue.

[PeterisP]

Their phones are yet another example of good hardware crippled by stupid software - not even low quality, but with bad intentional choices.

[3np]

The phones are terrible too, these days. I bricked a phone and lost access to all data on it by trying to back it up. Every Galaxy generation has gotten worse and worse in terms of preinstalled malware that takes a lot of effort and care to disable (if possible at all).

The only thing I would still buy from Samsung these days is storage devices.

[joombaga]

Their laser printers are great in my experience.

[einr]

They really were. No-nonsense drivers, just worked. About the only Samsung product I could truly recommend.

Unfortunately, HP bought their printer business in 2017. My ML1640 is still truckin' along just fine, however...

[3np]

The least-horrible (but still not great) monitor firmwares I had so far were Eizo, followed by Dell.

I will never buy Samsung or LG again - the displays themselves were great but the UI/UX for switching inputs and brightness etc are simply too excruciating.