Second Life Viewer Beta 2.0

So I downloaded and installed the new beta viewer for SL which seemed smoother, cleaner, and simpler. Well, actually it's not. Beyond that, I had problems hearing any voices... well, I couldn't hear ANY voices at all. Only lots of typing.

So I was about to reinstall the old SL... when after about 3 hours of searching Google, i came upon a small thread where a guy had written that SLVoice.exe is unable to recognize sound devices with names longer than 31+ letters. So I didn't want to rename my sound device and just reverted back to "Default" for Output device and voila! I could hear again! So much hassle for such a ridiculous bug.

I can see how the new UI is trying to clean up the old clicking and searching for items in your tens of thousands of items and galore, but it seems like just a new way to do the same complicated thing as before. I mean really, there is no easy way to go about SL. I mean, basically it's like training for Linux.

GUI's are always difficult to create and the most criticized aspect of most games. But then again, could you even consider Second Life as a game? I think it should fall in the over-glorified version of all social websites and 3d adult games in one little client. It could and should consider a renaming to Under Life or so.