was the oft levelled criticism of windows based applications. See the wikipedia definition here for example. The interesting think of course is that in over 15 years of windows computing I ran into this issue less than 5 times. In less than 5 years i've run into it more often on Linux. Today's example being with vmware. The issue is documented here though the prose rather glosses over the fact that this error means

1. you can't open any VM image at all that is not in the default location
2. you can't edit the default location
3. the libraries involved are an image library and a compiler library - basic tools in other words.  

farcical.