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I will first commit two heresies, so please forgive me.
Heresy the first: there is one piece of Usenet client software which I
happen to think Doesn't Suck Much. That is Forte Agent, and I have been
a happy customer for many years.
Heresy the second: it runs on Windows.
But for many years, I have been a Windows-free zone. Thankfully, there
is Wine, which I hate for all sorts of reasons, but at least it mostly
lets me run Agent on Linux. I say mostly, because for no apparent
reason a couple of years ago the cursor keys stopped working (and no, I
hadn't been dicking around in the config files), and they remain not
working despite having upgraded X and Wine, moved my installation to a
machine running in Virtual PC on a nice shiny Mac, and indeed still not
working in a brand new fresh install in Virtual PC. Cursor keys work
everywhere else, including other applications running under Wine.
But that's not what I am currently hating.
Y'see, running Windows apps under Wine on Linux in Virtual PC on Mac OS
X ain't fast. Screen refreshes are nasty. I can see the individual
letters appear on the screen with a noticeable lag when I'm typing.
Every so often I have to stop typing to let it catch up. For reading
news, it's fine, but posting is made hard (which some would say is a
good thing, but I hate those people).
So every few months I get sufficiently pissed off and decide to find a
native OS X client with a shiny GUI. You woulda thunk that Mac people,
being into shiny things and usability, would have at least one useable
news program. But no, they don't. They all suck, and they all manage
to suck and deserve hate in interesting, new and different ways.
--
David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david
Liver with fava beans and a nice chianti is
less appealing if the donor has cirrhosis
-- after Coyu, in soc.history.what-if
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