everyday multimedia not supported in Ubuntu

[Rainer Gutkas]

On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 09:14:32AM -0400, Ed Sutherland (digital at twcny.rr.com) wrote:

>> My concept of a Linux or Ubuntu wizard would not necessarily concentrate 
>> on automating an illegal process or a procedure violating a 
>> distribution's rules of practice. Rather, the wizards would automate 
>> commonly-asked procedures: setting up multimedia support, having your 
>> browser display a certain filetype or adding your Windows partition to 
>> the desktop (instead of instructions to apt this file or add that 
>> repository or search for this library.) If a process bumped up against a 
>> legality or internal ethics question, the user would be notified and she 
>> would then make the choice.
>> 
>> I know this level of automation goes counter the long-standing Linux 
>> tradition of seeking, searching and gaining technical expertise, but 
>> Linux needs to evolve along with the rest of the computing world. As 
>> computers pass the point where they are only operated by the technical 
>> elite and 'commoners' are the majority, such flexibility (as is seen 
>> with much of Ubuntu) needs to be adopted by every Linux distribution 
>> which desires to go beyond the realm of hobbyist niche.
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I think there is something to what you are saying here.

>Recently there was a story on slashdot about our hacker >elite switching
>to Macs for the benefits of a unix system and out of the >box
>productivity.  I think Linux distros should take note of >this.

>http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/29/1818256&tid=156&tid=3&tid=218

>Kent

I'm sure no hackers elite, but computer scientis and switched from osx and debian to ubuntu.The reasons:

- Works out of the box and is great set up
- Has a great support -> much better than apple
- Declares myself as emanzipated user, which apple doesn't (for instance mountftp is readonly supported-no driver support for third party wlan,...) ..
- The philosophy is great, free system which lives from users so everybody gives what he can give-thats how my world should be, it is within the linux world, it is within rainbows and some other things I participate in...and it is the spirit within ubuntu and thats great..

So I'm not happy about the lack of multimedia support as I am an hobby artist, did some films which are accessible via the web (quicktime, realplayer, winmedia streams) but won't play on ubuntu and I can't use ubuntu to cut more stuff and I also got lots of music which waits to get onto the computer and out into the free world so many people can enjoy it.... But I'm optimistic and I believe the legal problems get worked out and there will be great multimedia support in the future.

And I can live with the lack of multimedia support, and I can't live with company policy which are dedicated to such one thing thats money making. And that's why I (even if I'm new to ubuntu) believe in ubuntu and will stick with ubuntu!!!

Rainer

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