RE: Linux killer!
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Anticipation that a Linux Desktop is a easy swap replacement
for Windows
Desktop is simply a matter of expectations. It is what it is and where
it is any given place in time. Railing here on this list is the
equivalent to pissing in the wind.
The thread began with issues relating to proprietary software using
proprietary codecs and if more people were using Linux, there would be
more pressure to adopt codecs that Linux users could utilize without
doing technical tango.
As you said, "It is what it is" and that seems to apply to the
proprietary codecs also. The mplayer developers have done a marvelous
job integrating the windows codecs. Searching out this information
is non-trivial (without some luck) and difficult for the uninitiated.
This mailing list has a pretty good cross section of current Fedora users
and has some extremely intelligent and knowledgeable people on it.
It may well be that since software installation does and should require
some sort of administrative account (eg. root) and putting the root
account in the hands of the uneducated can be a terrible thing, a
different model is needed to further encroach upon Windows.
Bob Styma