[H]omer wrote:
> Verily I say unto thee, that Darth Chaos spake thusly:
>
>> I guess I was just expecting a port of the Nero Ultra Edition, but who
>> really needs the Nero Wave Editor when we have open-source Audacity
>> which to me is just as good? Really all I need is the basic Nero
>> burning tool (Nero Burning Rom), so when I take a closer look, Nero
>> delivers on its promises.
>
> Nero is now one of the most hideously bloated apps on Windows. It used
> to be a modular download, so you could pick and choose the individual
> components that you wanted to both install *and* download, but since
> version 6 (IIRC) it's just one huge monstrous download with no choice.
>
> Then when you go to install it, it sits there performing something that
> pretends to be an "optimisation" process, with a totally useless
> "progress" bar that doesn't actually show any progress, but instead just
> flashes back and forth like the headlights on Knight Rider, for (IIRC)
> about 10 minutes before it even starts to install (the "optimisation" is
> undoubtedly a euphemism for installing some kind of DRM/anti-piracy virus).
>
> Then it presents you with a huge list of components to choose from, most
> of which are little more than Shovelware, including one called "Nero
'Shovelware' LOL
> Scout", which reduces an already typically slow Windows system to a
> pathetic crawl. Ironically this is the one component that the user
> *cannot* chose whether or not to install, although it can be disabled by
> hacking the registry. Update: Oh apparently you can now disable it using
> a control panel applet in version 7. That's terrific, no really. How
> about just allowing the user to *not* install it in the first place,
> pillocks?
>
> Oh and good luck getting support from Ahead/Nero. After purchasing
> version 6, and the installer failed spectacularly with a cryptic error
> message, I had to wait *six months* for an update that actually allowed
> me to even *install* Nero, let alone use it. My requests for assistance
> and even refunds were answered by a bot named Mailer Daemon. Nothing
> like the personal touch, eh? It's what makes paying for proprietary
> software really worth it, after all.
>
> And for the love of God do *not* install the InCD packet writing
> software, since you might as well stick a fork in the CPU socket and
> save yourself the trouble. Wave bye-bye to ever having anything even
> resembling a stable system ever again, as much as Windows can ever
> actually *be* stable, that is.
>
> So Nero have released Nero Burning Rom for Linux. Pray they never, ever
> unleash the full bloated unstable mess that is Nero Suite on us poor
> unsuspecting Linux users.
>
> Meanwhile Growisofs already support Blu-Ray.
>
> http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/
>
Just yesterday I installed Nero 7.9.6.0 on my Windows 2008 Server
partition.
As a long term user of Nero 6.6.something, I agree with 85% of your first
hand observations, which are a rarity in COLA.
WinImage was required to prepare a slipstreamed DVD. Once
complete the image was burned with k3b, which I use often.
Like Zone Alarm, Norton Anti-Virus, MS Office, PhotoShop, and hundreds of
others, applications have became bloated. I call it the Kitchen Sink
Effect, which is not strictly a CSS phenomenon. At 108MB, OpenOffice2.2 is
not exactly suffering from anorexia. Then again, Microsoft Office
Enterprise 2007 is 502MB.
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