I guess you've never had to install a codec on Windows? Every audio and video-file you throw at it play instantly? Didn't think so. On Linux, installing MPlayer usually does the trick.
In that case, it wasn't as bad as I imagined. But still, it sounds pretty scary, and I didn't try it out, since I didn't want to risk a broken system. I stand corrected.
Opera has not been adware for several years. Free as in beer. No ads, no nags, no dialogs asking you to donate, nothing. Stop claiming that Opera is adware
I found something interesting a while back, when playing with Ubuntu. It came with Firefox preinstalled, and me, being an Opera user, not using Firefox, wanted to remove it. Why have it installed, when it's not being used, right?
Well, guess again. Marking Firefox for uninstallation informed me that a *lot* of other packages depended on it being there, and if I wanted to remove Firefox, I would have to remove those as well. Packages like ubuntu-desktop, and a few other that seemed pretty important.
Result? Unable to remove Firefox without severely breaking things. How is this any better than Microsoft integrating IE deeply within Windows? Because it's Firefox and Ubuntu, the community favorites, it's okay?
Using Wine, my girlfriends Gentoo-machine runs WoW like a dream. We followed this guide (http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Install_and_update_W orld_Of_Warcraft_with_wineguide) for Gentoo, but it can easily be used on Ubuntu or any other distro. One mighty trick is using the dedicated X-server, which gave a quite noticeable boost in FPS. Instead of booting right into KDE, she gets the console, where she can type startwow, or startx, depending on what she wants at the time. A little bit inconvenient to exit KDE to play, but doing so makes playing so much more enjoyable.
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I guess you've never had to install a codec on Windows? Every audio and video-file you throw at it play instantly? Didn't think so.
On Linux, installing MPlayer usually does the trick.
Just a single version now. Ad-free, as well as cost-free.
In that case, it wasn't as bad as I imagined. But still, it sounds pretty scary, and I didn't try it out, since I didn't want to risk a broken system. I stand corrected.
Opera has not been adware for several years. Free as in beer. No ads, no nags, no dialogs asking you to donate, nothing. Stop claiming that Opera is adware
I found something interesting a while back, when playing with Ubuntu. It came with Firefox preinstalled, and me, being an Opera user, not using Firefox, wanted to remove it. Why have it installed, when it's not being used, right?
Well, guess again. Marking Firefox for uninstallation informed me that a *lot* of other packages depended on it being there, and if I wanted to remove Firefox, I would have to remove those as well. Packages like ubuntu-desktop, and a few other that seemed pretty important.
Result? Unable to remove Firefox without severely breaking things. How is this any better than Microsoft integrating IE deeply within Windows? Because it's Firefox and Ubuntu, the community favorites, it's okay?
Using Wine, my girlfriends Gentoo-machine runs WoW like a dream. We followed this guide (http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Install_and_update_W orld_Of_Warcraft_with_wineguide) for Gentoo, but it can easily be used on Ubuntu or any other distro. One mighty trick is using the dedicated X-server, which gave a quite noticeable boost in FPS. Instead of booting right into KDE, she gets the console, where she can type startwow, or startx, depending on what she wants at the time. A little bit inconvenient to exit KDE to play, but doing so makes playing so much more enjoyable.
If you want a CLI tool for seeding, you could try libTorrent. It works great, uses little memory and is free