Why Featured Desktop are Retarded IRL

Ok, so we've all seen these super sexy custom featured desktops featured on Lifehacker, and damn do they make you desire them, you want to be as cool as them and show them off in your sweet pad. But you know what? They aren't really that cool...and here's why:

1. You need to install a crapload of custom mods, apps, widgets, wallpapers, and icons, and yes I realize that there is an installer for most of it, but usually people disable effects to get performance, not crud it up more
2. It doesn't even really do anything other than look pretty and convey almost entirely completely useless information like your cpu uage, memory available and harddisk space. When was the last time you cared to check that information, and how frequently do you really need it? virtually never! A terabyte is a lot of information and affords me not to require checking on it very often. I can scroll song information in my winamp taskbar title and really don't need to see a picture of my album cover as I don't own many cds anyways so they wouldn't mean much to me.
   
3. Probably one of the most important: YOU CAN'T SEE ANY OF IT IF YOU HAVE ANYTHING OPEN! Who the hell has their computer on with nothing ever open or up? What is the point of that, your desktop is a place you put stuff on top of, not watch and marvel at. I think the whole mac style fanboy crap has really gotten to people on windows. So we don't have a fancy remote and sleek minimalist UI, but yeah our computers can actually do stuff and not just look pretty or make a fashion statement. If you are sitting at your computer, you are doing something with it. If you aren't it should be in powersave mode.

Seriously, it's all glammer and no substance. What's the point? You are probably thinking "to get laid", and that's probably what they were thinking too when they made these.