Marc, What I can tell you is that every version keeps on improving. Multimedia used to be a very big sore point of Linux. Nowadays I believe it is past this. I find smplayer and VLC to be one of the best and maybe also most polished players available. I would suggest you give them a try. I found Flash stability to depend on the orientation of the stars and moons since Adobe often release good versions but sometimes screw up everthing too. Not much you can do there but try different versions of the plugin. I am currently using the version 10.0 and its not acting up (yet) for a couple of weeks now.
Also, if a particular distribution does not detect your hardware correctly or you find the installation cumbersome, do not stop there and try other popular distributions like OpenSUSE and Fedora which are worth the download for sure. Another interesting thing to take into consideration is what happened today at the insallfest. Alan installed the latest Ubuntu 8.10 over his previous 8.04. He had working wireless and after the installation the wireless networks available were empty. It turned out that all we had to do was fetch the latest updates for 8.10 (75 updates!!) which contained various fixes including this one related to the wireless. Regards, Raphael On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Marc Tanti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Since you're all talking about pros and cons of Ubuntu, here's a > testimony of a typical Ubuntu user. I use Ubuntu exclusively on my pc > and I'm not very happy with it. > > It does not do very well with multi media. For example my videos > always have a blue hue to them and I have to fix it in the settings (I > tried all video viewers which I found in Synaptic and I searched every > possible solution), plus in the previous version FireFox used to close > on its own overnight, every friggin night, using the previous version > of Ubuntu. Now with 10.8 it doesn't close but instead videos on > youtube will play without sound for the first 2 seconds only, after a > night, and no sound at all will play anywhere and then when I launch > RythmBox it crashes. So I have to restart my computer every day. > > Also, I didn't check this in the latest version, but I cannot > hibernate my pc because I increased my RAM and it's bigger than my > swap space (which I assume that I will have to format in order to > increase). > > Finally I have a tv tuner and a playstation-joystick-to-pc-usb-adapter > which I cannot find drivers to and therefore I have bought for > nothing, unless I continue using xp. > > I'm still a noob with Ubuntu so if anyone can give personalized help > on these issues, you will ensure the permanent stay of another Maltese > Linux User. > > 2008/11/15 Sebastian Cachia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hey all, > > > > First of all, correct me if I am wrong, but this was your first post on > the > > mailing list Rodrick, so welcome to the community! > > > > I definitely wouldn't market Linux for it's gaming attributes (except to > > someone who is into the "miniclip" type of fun simple gameplay oriented > > games for which there are loads of great games available). Rather I would > > promote the fact that Linux believes so much in freedom of choice that it > > even helps you install Linux and Windows side by side by dual booting. > > > > Something that should definitely appeal to any normal technology student > is > > the customizability and learning experience provided by Linux. Both of > these > > are a product of the ideology behind Linux. > > > > Some sort of "step by step" tutorial for setting up common software in > Linux > > would be a great idea. I don't know if we should do this by making use of > > sites like ubuntuguide mentioned by Jean, and perhaps other existing > sites > > for other distros, or re-invent the wheel and put together a site of our > > own, allowing us to target content to our specific situation. I suppose > it > > will depend alot on the level of commitment the community is willing to > get > > into. > > > > Also, something interesting to work on would be a "why use Linux list". > > There are loads of them available on the internet so finding items to > list > > shouldn't be a problem. I think that we should however aim to make it as > > nice and shiny as possible, the sort of thing apple would do. > > > > Infact I would like to re-awaken the idea mentioned over summer of having > a > > slightly more exciting site for recruitment purposes. A nice shiny theme, > > some sort of cms like drupal currently in use, or wordpress on joomla, > and > > lots of content, especially the visual kind. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > MLUG-list mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list > > > > > _______________________________________________ > MLUG-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list >
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