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
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/
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K.
http://slated.org
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