The Tweetdeck [Windows] Desktop Experience

I'm jealous of Mac users because they have so many great choices when it comes to Twitter desktop apps. Why? Well, here's what tends to happen when I use Tweetdeck on my Windows 7 PC:

1. I'm forced to close/reopen the app because it starts acting very strangely, usually in the form of allowing me to scroll up endlessly through infinitely-repeating copies of the top two tweets in my timeline.


2. When I reopen Tweetdeck, the app loads completely, and then I get a popup asking me to update Adobe Air (the platform that Tweetdeck was created on). For some reason I cannot update Adobe Air while Tweetdeck is running, so I close the app again, which allows the 'Update Now' button to be clicked. Why it doesn't just ask me to do this before the app loads is beyond me.


3. After the update finishes, I'm assuming that Tweetdeck will open itself back up like any other normal application does, but no--that would make too much sense. I go and open the app again myself.


4. Use Tweetdeck some more (in the meantime wondering why it does silly things like highlight entire tweets when I simply click a link within one), and then go through this whole process again whenever the app next decides to stop functioning properly.

Is this really supposed to be the desktop Twitter app of choice for Windows? The whole thing reeks of amateur hour.