That being said, I am posting this from a Mandrake/Mandriva (whatever they wanna call it) box, and I would hardly classify myself as a "seasoned Linux guru". Yes, I come home every night and do an automatic urpmi.update -a and urpmi --auto-select, but I have never had a problem with running any and all the vidoes that I want; DVD's, MPEG's, AVI's and...well, that's all the formats that pr0n usually comes in, so I'm good. My preference is Kaffiene, that gets borked by an update, I switch to Mplayer for a day or two until the RPM problems are sorted out, and if I have to, I'll drop all the way down to Xine...What I've found as a MCSE who makes a living supporting Windows machines (thank the power's that be for Windows), is that problems in Linux can always be solved and it can be tweaked by someone willing to spend a bit of time and concentrated thought to fix it. Ready for the world, I don't think so, unless you have a cookie cutter environement, where you can deploy a distro en masse, and then convince the users that not being able to install Webshots! is not the end of the world....I've tried a few distros and I always go to setup file sharing and video playback first, and have yet to fail with the Xine/Mplayer combo...it wasn't PnP, but it can just about always be done by the patient. Now I will close my eyes and prepare to get slammed by Slashdot!
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...well, that's all the formats that pr0n usually comes in, so I'm good. My preference is Kaffiene, that gets borked by an update, I switch to Mplayer for a day or two until the RPM problems are sorted out, and if I have to, I'll drop all the way down to Xine...What I've found as a MCSE who makes a living supporting Windows machines (thank the power's that be for Windows), is that problems in Linux can always be solved and it can be tweaked by someone willing to spend a bit of time and concentrated thought to fix it. Ready for the world, I don't think so, unless you have a cookie cutter environement, where you can deploy a distro en masse, and then convince the users that not being able to install Webshots! is not the end of the world....I've tried a few distros and I always go to setup file sharing and video playback first, and have yet to fail with the Xine/Mplayer combo...it wasn't PnP, but it can just about always be done by the patient. Now I will close my eyes and prepare to get slammed by Slashdot!
That being said, I am posting this from a Mandrake/Mandriva (whatever they wanna call it) box, and I would hardly classify myself as a "seasoned Linux guru". Yes, I come home every night and do an automatic urpmi.update -a and urpmi --auto-select, but I have never had a problem with running any and all the vidoes that I want; DVD's, MPEG's, AVI's and