For grabbing codecs/fonts/players on K/Ed/Ubuntu take a look at EasyUbuntu or Automatix.
At this point with the likes of *Ubuntu, Suse, Mandriva, they generally have everything you need to get started. If you start getting into the audio/video editing side you have to make sure your hardware is supported, I've gone through 2 albeit older vid capture cards that there was no docs or info on getting setup in Linux. But the for all the naysayers the 80/20 kind of applies - at least 80% of everything you need to do isn't going to take any more effort on a Linux box than a Windows box. And for those proprietary business applications? after being through a couple of large scale desktop migration projects - they're a PITA to get config'd and running on their own specific platform regardless of wether is *nix or Windows On 10/11/06, Winterlight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Question 2 >Besides the desire to game, why wouldn't a typical home user want a linux >based system? Heck all of the apps seem free, its graphical, even supports >my camera out of the box. I mean for just word processing, surfing the >internet and looking at pics and playing some mp3's is there a valid reason >for them 'wanting' Windows? Multimedia, particular video, TV recording, editing, ...and of course proprietary business software that the vast majority of small business relies on.
-- -jmg -sapere aude
