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Amen, You are preaching to the choir here. Well
done.
Steve
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2005 2:12
PM
Subject: Re: Round two mPlayer -- basic
UNIX/Linux (and MacOS) approaches
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. I can't tell you how many times I have heard something like
this come out of his mouth, "I just don't understand how linux thinks it is
going to gain any sort of serious market share if a user has to do all this
arcane tinkering in config files and compiling of kernel modules. How is an
average user supposed to know how to do this??"
It is easy to get
frustrated by all the little problems that comes with a standard installation
of Linux. If you don't know what I am talking about, try installing Linux on
your parent's or spouse's machine without making any modifications. Let them
live on it for a while and see how pissed off they get when they can't watch a
news video on CNN.com and can't figure out how to fix it. They aren't going to
want to read a 200 page manual on mplayer, they just want it to work.
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snippage>
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