Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 9th Nov 2004 20:49 UTC
"Desktop Linux is almost soup. We only have a few items left on the short list. Will we do it? If history is an indicator, the answer is yes." Read this article at LXer. Read more for a short list of my personal needs before I could say "yes, I can switch to Linux or FreeBSD full time".
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I agree quicktime support could be much better (but, this is really more of a patent issue, isn't it?) As for window's media, I find myself using mplayer on my powerbook to play .wmv files that Microsoft's own Windows Media Player (for mac) can't play. Codec problems exist on all platforms (even on windows, where the 'connect to the internet to try to find the necessary codec' dialog has never once worked for me...)
Anyway, I think these are issues that exist on most operating systems at the moment, which is why so many sites have several different versions of every single video they put up. (At least one for windows and one for mac users.) If linux had as large commercial support/general user base, there would probably be a version specifically guaranteed to work on linux boxes...