Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> ____/ John Locke on Monday 21 January 2008 23:53 : \____
>
>> On Mon, 21 Jan 2008 16:42:00 -0600, thad05 wrote:
>>
>>> chrisv© <chrisv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Ubuntu out of the box can't even play MP3 files and it recommends all
>>>> kinds of shitty applications like Amarok, open office a.s.o., don't you
>>>> think so bro?
>>
>> Next time go to Synaptic and download VLC. That takes care of most of the
>> audio and video codecs PLUs has a fairly good media player.
>
> XMMS comes with MP3 support too (unless that has changed). And you know
> how 'difficult' it is to get XMMS in Ubuntu... takes a few seconds of mousing
> (or clicking if you can type in 'sudo apt-get install xmms').
>
> Mark puts it well in the OP, but the PC needn't even come with Linux
> preinstalled. I've installed Linux on two boxes in the past 6 months
> and /everything/ worked out of the box. Installation took just minutes and it
> was so trivial that it makes you feel stupid. It's almost insulting.
>
That was my feeling about the whole experience. Expertise required to
plug together pre-installed machine with arbitrary hardware and network
= zero.
Time and effort = zero.
Unfortunately, the GUI dual-screen app in Ubuntu doesn't seem to
understand xrandr and the Intel card, so doing it by hand was necessary.
Obviously, for a single monitor setup, it wouldn't even come up as an
issue.
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