Re: Linux killer!
From: tlc (tlc_at_artemide.us)
Date: 10/31/05
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Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 08:29:13 -0500 To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@redhat.com>
On Sat, 2005-10-29 at 13:46 +0100, malcolm wrote:
> 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 !
>
mplayer and mplayer-plugin ... plays just about everything I have come
across ...
> M
>
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