Bloat, Bloat, Bloat!
Wednesday, December 26th, 2007I’m tired of over-bloated applications. They really annoy me. I used to love Ahead Nero Burning ROM. But now, they’ve bloated Nero into a whole suite of applications which have functionality I don’t care about or get via other means. So I’ve started searching for better (i.e. more compact) CD/DVD burning software. Nero v8.2.8.0 is a 183MB download. Way too much. On Mac OS X, I use Disco for burning most things, and that’s only a 1.43MB download. Knowing this, I ask myself, “Why waste hundreds of times as much space on Windows?”
I figured the best place to search for new software that did what I want was to go to Download.com, find the CD/DVD burning category, and sort by user votes. I didn’t sort by number of downloads because the size of the userbase of an application doesn’t necessarily measure it’s greatness. At the top of the list was “Oront Burning Kit 2″. With an 8.83MB download size, Oront Burning Kit 2 looked tempting. It only costs $35 and does everything I need. CDs, DVD’s, DVD-DL’s, bootable discs, mp3 discs, audio discs, data discs… everything. I haven’t used it for the full 10 day trial period yet, but I’ve burned one DVD with it, and it worked beautifully. So far, I am really excited about Oront Burning Kit 2!