Entice Designer 0.8.2 release

[Daniel Keep]

Saaa wrote:
> Are even programmers against vista?
> Is it because of the price? Or maybe you think it isn't necessary?
> You must understand that the real features of vista which are interesting 
> can't be shown in general commercials, right?
> 
> No that I'm a fan.. I don't even run it but I could get excited when I get 
> my new computer.
> 
> http://manodesign.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!1pRsSVBaAuwgFSti-clSJ6Ng!362.entry
> DirectX 10 , software sound approach
> 
> I  am just interested in the why it is that bad that you think because of it 
> to switch?
> 
> 
> "Bill Baxter" <dnewsgroup at billbaxter.com> wrote in message 
> news:f0gv1a$2jtf$1 at digitalmars.com...
>> freeagle wrote:
>>> Charlie wrote:
>>>> DFL and Entice are really under-appreciated IMO , an awesome piece of 
>>>> work.
>>> I think this is because the project is hosted at www.dprogramming.com. 
>>> I'm not saying there's anything bad about it, but I think that first, and 
>>> probably the last, stop for any beginning D programmer is 
>>> www.dsource.org. That's why projects at dprogramming don't receive much 
>>> attention.
>> It looks like a very nice project, but I think the fact that it's 
>> Windows-only is the reason for lack of widespread adoption.  Heck I'm a 
>> Windows-only user but I won't touch Windows-only libraries.  I value my 
>> own freedom to switch platforms at will too much, especially these days 
>> with Vista breathing uncomfortably down my neck.   I also value the 
>> ability to share with friends who don't use Windows.  So I never really 
>> gave DFL a second look.
>>
>> --bb 

Warning: rant follows.
Summary: Vista sucks.

I don't know about Bill, but I'm never going to be installing Vista for
a lot of reasons.

First of all is the DRM crap they've loaded the OS with.  MS has been
pushing DRM more and more over the last few years, but this is going too
far.  I absolutely refuse to support anything designed specifically to
take away control over my own machine (also a reason why I will never
buy a Mac so long as they have TPM chips in them).  See
http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html

Let's also not forget that their shiny new DRM garbage also means all
the cool stuff my Creative sound card does is worthless.

Second is the fact that Vista is more bloated than Mr. Creosote[1] from
The Meaning of Life.  Even if you turn off all the shiny flashy
bling-bling, it still sucks down resources for them.  I neither want nor
need all this garbage; I suffer more than enough aggravation from XP's
"features" to want to have to deal with even more crap.

Small example: whenever a system-tray "bubble" pops up, it locks the
task bar in the shown position, and you can't get it to go away until
you actually click on the icon that showed the bubble.  I mean, what was
the point of putting a close button on the bubble if it's going to
pester you until you click on it anyway?!

Also, as a programmer, I'm seriously pissed off with the new stuff in
Vista.  I mean, first they bring out .NET with SWForms, then almost
immediately deprecate it for WPF.  How long before they bring out
something else new that I need to re-learn?  Bugger it; I'm sticking to
cross platform toolkits from now on, no exceptions.

Finally is the fact that anything Vista can do, Linux can already do,
and do it better.  I mean, the marketing push for Vista has been "The
Wow starts Now": have you ever seen Beryl?  That thing completely blows
Vista and OSX out of the water in terms of how shiny it is.

Basically, I'm just completely fed up with Microsoft both as a user and
as a developer.  Both myself and my parents been paying the MS tax and
fighting Windows for over a decade now, and we're not playing their game
any more.  Screw 'em.

	-- Daniel

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Creosote

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