Alice? Don't expect a wonderland

I don't normally get headaches. But I have a headache now as I type. If you want a headache, too, then try to downlaod and operate Alice 2.0 or 2.2. Then you'll have a headache as you read what I'm currently typing (with a headache).

This program is impossible, incorrigible, fruitless, joyless, and worht everything I paid for it: nothing. I tried to install Alice 2.2 on my laptop, but I ended up playing whack-a-mole with the User Errors. Then I dl'd 2.0 on my laptop. Same problem.

I moved to my desktop, in which I just invested several hundred American dollars. The hardware's state-of-the art, so Bob's your uncle, right? Sure, until I tried to operate the program. I feel like I'm laboring on the Great Wall of China, pouring hours and hours into a meaningless project.

The tutorials manage to move at a glacial pace yet still explain nothing. Four different tutorials accomplish the same feat of spending my time, sucking my energy, and imbibing me with nothing but frustration.

But the difficulty of Alice is exceeded only by my obstinance. I will conquer this stupid software even if it's the last thing I do.