2 Feb
2006
2 Feb
'06
1:58 p.m.
On Thu Feb 02, 2006 at 12:48:11PM -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 10:23 -0500, Dana Olson wrote:
are you just being a "troll" ? all i had to do was type: emerge mplayer-plugin
win32codecs (which even works on amd64 if you have a multilib config which you have to go
out of your way not to) and everything even the worst of proprietary wmv codecs play just
fine in webpages...
my biggest gripe with linux is at a much lower level than the desktop (where KDE and Gnome
are already as good as or better than OSX/Windows): horrible driver support from ATI (VGA
port gives totally distorted output, fglrx rarely compiles right and when it does is just
full screen flashes of color), and impossibility of getting low latency audio working
(ingo's patches crashing on boot, or randomly freezing later on) and generally
brokenness relating to timer issues on turion/x2 chips which causes further problems with
JACK and various io devices..
I am hoping Dapper shatters my expectations,
considering
they're pitting it against Vista and want it to be very extra
polished. I guess time will tell.
If they want to pit it against Vista they'd better get off their butts
and get streaming video in Firefox working. 75% of the time I just get
that damn "Plugin Finder" and then when I click it of course "No
suitable plugin could be found".
Desktop Linux is a joke if stuff like this still won't work...
Lee