javamutt's Journal: How does the Windows world tolerate it?

As part of my Windows duality I wanted to get my system in Windows as close as possible to my Linux environment. The final hurdle in my path was the CD Burner. Since I bought that burner in my monogomous Linux days I hadn't managed to archive the driver CD that came with it. Surely Windows has a generic CD burner package by now - these things are everywhere.

Surely not.

I searched everywhere for a free tool (read: FREE, not download an eval that needs to be licensed). I found nothing. It looks like there are two primary CD burner packages out there people use, but both cost $$. Not unreasonable amounts, but more than I want to pay given that I have great free software on my other partition that does it for free.

I really had to stop and wonder... For something as basic as CD writing, how can the windows world tolerate all of the nickel-and-diming that goes on? While Windows itself had become less abrasive to me over the years, the neighborhood had remained the same. How sad that so many go without enlightenment.

enlightenment.

[sbuckhopper]

How sad that so many go without enlightenment.

Or WindowMaker, or GNOME, or KDE.

Amen, I agree with that!