cause me extreme frustration.
I just want something that says, "Click on this button to download" and then "Click on this button to make it work."
Yesterday I decided, after a lot of deliberation, that I needed a much better program than I had to make knitting graphs.
Now I know this will seem strange to the non-knitters among you but such things do exist. Like anything else, some are better than others.
Mine is old. It is not very powerful. It was fine when I was simply doing things for myself. Now that I occasionally have to design something that other people are going to use it has to be better than that.
So, I went hunting. (We cats are reasonably adept at that.) Then I went prowling through the reviews. I found the one recommended by a major knitting site that I trust. Yes, good reviews and apparently easy to use. I took a deep breath - because I hate not seeing things in detail before I buy them - but there were no growling reviews so I bought the item.
And I couldn't download it. I tried multiple times and it kept stalling half way through. (It was also extremely slow to get that far.)
I contacted the site and had an almost instant and helpful response. The person at that end went out of their way to download the program to a server on this side of the world - much faster. Great!
And then I tried again. Yes, I downloaded the program. Now I can't get it to work. I need a "workspace".
Now yesterday I downloaded something called Java. I don't understand that either but it was apparently necessary before I could do download the program.
Now it seems I need something called Java Eclipse. I really don't understand that at all. It is starting to scare me.
I need help. I am a frustrated cat. We cats like to keep things simple! Why do humans have to complicate everything?
I just want to get on with MY work. Growl!
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A lot of the current software cannot run on computers that are too old. People who make the software will often assume customers have the latest (less than 3-5 years old) but I run computers that are older than that.
A good program and supportive software company will have "backwards compatibility" with earlier computer operating systems. Sometimes, to make your new software work with your old computer, you need to install a 'patch' program to translate the new software lingo into lingo that your old computer will keep up with and understand.
I hope that simplifies things a little bit but I am no expert either!
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