Linux killer!

From: malcolm (malcolm_at_interele.demon.co.uk)
Date: 10/29/05

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    Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 13:46:28 +0100
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    I work in a school and we are thinking about Linux
    I put some test machines out - Fedora, Suse and Ubuntu
    The view of the students was Fedora was the best ..great so far
    Then we did the KDE v Gnome thing - Gnome won ... even better
    Then I asked the question - so what do you think of Linux ?
    'It sucks ! ' was the almost universal response ( students aged 11 to 18 )
    Why I asked .. It never falls over, XP dies all the time ... true they said
    OO is just like Office to use and doesn't munge up documents .. also
    true they said
    It will save the school £20000 per year, so why does it suck

    Because we can't watch Yahoo music videos and that was it - Ok I did
    point out that
    they weren't suppose to be watching them at all really but that doesn't
    cut much ice with
    teenagers. So the problem is this - I am never going to get this off the
    ground if I don't have
    the support of the kids. Windows Media is my Linux killer - Codeweavers
    are OK but
    only support WMP 6.4 - I've never got gxine to work properly and the
    Linux version of Real Player
    won't do the 'universal player' trick that the Windows one does.

    Even the most angst ridden teenager admitted that 99% of Linux was
    better than the Windows
    equivalent but not one of them wanted to use it simply because of the
    lack of Windows Media plugins

    Help .... please !

    M 

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