This light hearted review is a look at how a girl who uses Windows (and is non-technical) deals with using Fedora Linux instead. In fact, she likes it so much, she uses it all the time now. If she can use Fedora Linux, anyone can.
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RE[3]: This review is bullshit
by thabrain on Tue 16th Aug 2005 17:43
in reply to "RE[2]: This review is bullshit"
Member since:2005-06-29
The blurb at the top of the article doesn't specify install, it specifies use.
By bringing up the OS installation, you stated a judgement as to it being a criteria for the review. You created the means for the comparison, not I.
As for the media player issue, once again, had Linux been pre-installed (by me) the codec would have been there, and this wouldn't have been an issue. The vast majority of websites out there use WMP, QuickTime, or Real as their streaming source, and MPlayer will work with all 3 of those.
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2005-07-06
I never said ease of installation was something to judge the OS by -- but OSNews and the blurb did, therefore I discredited the claim.
As for the media player, it wasn't so much the fact that a media player was missing (God knows modern distributions install at least 4), it's that a specific media player and codec was missing. In Windows, I download the DivX installer, double-click, click Next, and I have DivX in all of my media programs. The same applies to XviD.
This person spent hours getting streaming video to work. Are those the merits you speak of?