On Tuesday 08 June 2004 07.23, Paul Thompson wrote:
6. No MP3 encoding -- Yeah I know OGG and compiling LAME, but out of the box and legal is not there.
Show me one system where it is! It's certainly not Windows. There, it's all Windows Media Format, no mp3 out of the box there
7. NO Video playing -- Yeah I know, compile the decoders, but out fo the box...
Show me one system where it is! It's certainly not windows. There, it's all Windows Media Format. No DVDs there (yes! I said no DVD playing in windows! The people who complain about it in linux have obviously never tried to set it up in windows on a machine where they didn't get the software on a CD along with the DVD drive. IT IS NOT POSSIBLE), for most avi codecs you have to get third party packages etc. In fact, you get MORE codecs out of the box in linux than in windows also, there's no need to compile lame or anything else. It's all been done for you. Go to http://packman.links2linux.org for some excellent suse packages for all your multimedia needs
8. Networking is a pain to set up
huh? One-click setup for most things, although I agree that wireless seems to be a bit of a pain.
11. 3D acceleration on video guaranteed to crash
Not from where I'm standing. Quake, Unreal, armyops all work like a charm
12. Cant write to NTFS drives.
Ah. I guess you complain to the windows mailing lists about their inability to write to reiser/xfs/jfs drives as well, right?
13. Inconsistent interfaces to application.
That's true everywhere. Apps in windows aren't consistent either. In fact, the KDE interface is probably the most consistent you're likely to find anywhere on the x86 platform