Pidgin Sucks!

Wow, I feel like a jerk for saying this, but Pidgin sucks! I wasn't hesitant at first when trying to update GAIM to find that Pidgin was it's "wave of the future", but a day later--I'm uninstalling the damn thing and switching to a different client... after years of loyalty!

The reason?, when you hit a key like backspace or the up or down arrow while chatting, the speaker (which isn't a part of the volume controls your OS operates) gets chirped. Not a warm fuzzy chirp like a chic makes, but a frigging honk from hell, loud enough to make you actually sh#t your pants. Not once mind you, but every time your spastic fingers hit "the wrong" key.

I hunted for a solution and found suggestions ranging from "it's not our fault", to reprogram your registry, to switch to a different operating system. Come on folks, I know you disdain social functionality in all their tedious forms but on behalf of the human race, "pull your collective heads out".

So, while I would normal applaud the volunteer programming community that gives us so much awesome stuff, on this day I can only remark, "go to hell a-holes"! I'm going down the road.