I am pleased to be here, and happy to meet you all. Please understand that I
am somewhat new to GNU/Linux, and having tried several distros, few working
for me, and many failing, I have landed on Trisquel, and with a few
questions. If these questions have been addressed elsewhere, please forgive
me and point me in the right direction.
First of all: My stats,
-Computer: HP Pavilion dv6-
Processor : 4x AMD A8-4500M APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics
Memory : 15822MB (1203MB used)
Operating System : Trisquel GNU/Linux 7.0, Belenos
-Display-
OpenGL Renderer : Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 3.4, 128 bits)
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation
-Multimedia-
Audio Adapter : HDA-Intel - HDA ATI HDMI
Audio Adapter : HDA-Intel - HD-Audio Generic
Second: a few questions,
1. When I play video my laptop runs very hot and turns itself off, this
hasen't happened with any other OS whatsoever.
2. Can anyone suggest a music player that has the ability to be deactivated
when no longer in use, and can someone please explain to me why it is that
Trisquel (an OS based upon freedom) denies the user the ability to control
basic media programs? Why on Earth would I be denied the ability to turn this
"Rythembox" off? It just stays in the system tray forever?
3. Freedom... Codecs... I understand that Trisquel, and the overal GNU/Linux
community wants everything to be in OGG format, and I have a basic
understanding as to why that is, though I welcome more information. My
question is this; What is one to do when they have several hdd's worth of
music and film, most of which is in either mp4, mp3, or avi, from years of
Window$ background. Honestly it would take months of time to covert all of my
media to free formats, and cost quite a bit to purchase new drives for Linux
formatting and OGG files. At the very least I would need a couple of TB in
order to how the converted files until I had emptied one drive for
reformatting.
4. Im a bit confused about exFUSE, rather, I understand how it works and what
it does, however, I am not sure if using FUSE so that Windows formatted
flashdrives and harddrives work (fat32 or ntfs I think?) but is that not the
same as using VLC and non-free codecs to play mp3 and mp4 on linux?
Please forgive my ignorance, but this had been quite the crash course for me
over the past several weeks. Thanks in advance for any information and
guidance.
