ok so i got a beef. what the heck is wrong with computer software today. or rather to explain better, software made by companies.

adobe, can you please explain to me what the hell is in adobe reader? just the GD installer is 45MB for crying out loud?! for reading a damn pdf file?!?

real player? 7 mb for an installer FOR ANOTHER INSTALLER? really? i mean, REALLY?

nokia, i know you really want me to sync my phone to my computer every single day, but i won’t do it, i promise, especially  if its 70 MB just for the install file.

apple…where do i begin? quicktime is  75 MB just for the player. itunes, same deal. cmon, just to play some music. and your software just isn’t even that good.

vlc does all of the above in 15 mb as far as media playing goes. amarok is a bit bigger, but at least it’s a bit of a better player too.

even firefox is getting a bit too bloaty for my liking now, that’s why i switched to opera. go try it fools. it does everything and more that firefox and thunderbird combined can do!

please note my exclusion of ANY software produced by microsoft, they’re not even worthy of a rant. i’m too tired of all the bloat they produce and as most of my readers now, i haven’t dealt with any of their rubbish in a few years now.

oh yeah, and another note, get your shit out of my system tray. if i wanted it to start up everytime i boot my computer, i’d put it in the startup myself. thanks much.

p.s. (feel free to expand on this list in the comments).