Yes Silverdragon, I do enjoy stirring the soup. Sometimes. But I promise to respect everyone’s ideas, and really, I’m more interested in what others think on the subject of bloatware ultimately.
I guess, all of this, comes out my purchasing history, the likes of which I will share…
I actually bought a Macbook some years back because of two reasons (1) my windows machines was plagued with malware, viruses and woefully slow – it was a Pentium II for those who remember such machines – and (2) at the time Scrivener for Windows or Scrivener for Linux hadn’t been developed, and I was in desperate need of good, cheaper-than-MS-Word- bloat-free writing software, that didn’t slow my computer down. Hence, I forked a few grand for Macbook Pro, bought Scrivener and for several years was quite happy.
These days, I’m currently debating about getting a new computer, but now I have a lot more options. Computers are more than fast enough to run any writing software no matter how complicated, and the size of apps doesn’t matter because HD space is in the terabytes in most new machines; and it occurred to me, that my attitude to search for bloat-free software needed a facelift. Should I even care for bloat? People might rant that there are too many options in MS Word, that it’s too confusing, etc. And this might be why I should continue to use Scrivener, so on and so forth. But I don’t know. It ain’t rocket science, and even the most complicated software, can be learned with time.
This is not to say, that I’m not going to continue with Scriv – I am. It’s just that the whole ‘bloat-free’ attitude just doesn’t seem so strong an argument, as it once was. Complexity isn’t bad. It’s frustrating, yes. But it does have its benefits. And this whole ‘using one app for this’ and another ‘app for that’ attitude seems unnecessarily finicky. There are times where I just wish I had one app for everything, the lazy arse writer that I am.
Feel free to butt-heads guys. Just want to know your thoughts. =)