I tried changing various preference settings, but to no avail. I left it alone for two hours, but still nothing. There is supposed to be a progress bar, but I never saw it. It would just sit their with the little blue circular ribbon of death going round and round. At any rate, all I wanted to do was import my GEDCOM file. Who wants that?īasically, this is something Microsoft has done in the past, which is hijack someone else's software and change it arbitrarily to make it their own, thus making users dependent upon their version. They even have the audacity to plainly state right in their own literature that the process of importing your old GEDCOM, especially if it's a large file, WILL cause loss of data!? Not might. What they have apparently done is pirate the GEDCOM standard and transmogrified it into something unrecognizable by other well-established genealogy programs. The problem is it's written by programmers for programmers instead of as a tutorial for the end user. So, after a three hour tour, I was lost at sea.Ī second problem with open source software is that the technical writing is generally horrible.
THE GRAMPS MANUAL
They even tell you that it's not advisable to simply start using the software, that you need to read the manual beforehand (not really a manual as it's only available on-line).
The one problem with open source software is that because it's not actually a company, there is nobody at the helm steering the ship, so the result in this case is the ship being lost at sea.
This is undoubtedly the most overly complicated, unintuitive, and user-unfriendly software ever! This is coming from someone who comes from a high-tech background, including programming, and has decades of genealogy experience behind me (would that be a pun?).
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