On 2007-07-04, [H]omer <spam@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Verily I say unto thee, that Darth Chaos spake thusly:
> 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.
Mine was boxed but you *can* pick and choose at install time however
it is very tedious to wade through the seemingly hundreds of
options.
> 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).
That's funny. Knight rider. Good one.
> 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
> 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?
Pretty much a good description.
> 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
I've never had it installed long enough to need support. Current
versions that is. The last good version was 5.5.10 I believe.
> 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.
Very true not to mention it wreaks havoc with other programs.
> 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.
Sadly it sounds like that is exactly what they are moving towards.
Personally I have mixed opinions about specific tools for the job
vs all in one packages, but in any case, Nero is way over the top.
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