I?ve been trying, trying really hard, last 2 months to make a permanent migratory solution towards Linux from Windows XP. But still there are issues that nag me a lot, I just cant find anything related to fix them or learn them.
A few of my migratory problems are,
1.??? I can?t successfully burn CDs or DVDs at all; they fail each time with all the stuff I try, K3B, Gnome Baker or even Nautilus.
2.??? I can?t play these old .rm [Real Media] South Park files, just don?t know what codec to install, the real player says its retarded, I mean the file?s retarded and it wont play. Some videos chop, maybe its my hardware but on Windows, Media Player Classic plays them all smooth as my monitor?s surface. Even 1080p HD plays nice on XP. It loses frames on Linux.
3.??? Can?t find a decent Music player that shows an album view with Art icons on it, I am addicted to it like any drug-addict would be. Damn WMP 11 for that.
4.??? It doesn?t still configure stuff for my USB-Cable connection to Mobile. I can see that it detects a Nokia 6681 but I don?t know how to use that.
5.??? The GIMP seriously sucks in its interface windows, for a person low on art but used to Photoshop?s interface, this sucks migrating to.
6.??? Open Office is sometimes very low on intelligence. I added a new word to the dictionary as auto replace and some times where I need the first letter to be capital; it replaces it by a small lettered one. Just frustrating sometimes.
Looks like its not me alone with issues, Karthik here, with a spanking new AM2 board and AMD X2 processor, suffers not being able to install Linux itself, and he?s finding no support for his board?s Ethernet and Graphics either. Good luck to him.
For the .rm files you will need the Real Media codec , use Automatixx , or download real player.
Dat’s the only option !
teen
3 Nov 06 at 9:31 pm
I got them both but they like to play the old encoding used in it, lame Real Media.
Harsh J
3 Nov 06 at 9:38 pm
except ur first two problems , even I face these problems.
About first problem , I cant write a CD successfully in XP for the last one month but linux do it damn well.
Rahul Gupta
3 Nov 06 at 10:30 pm
You got the South Park too? Cool, how did you manage to play those downloaded ones?
Harsh J
3 Nov 06 at 10:43 pm
I finally got rid of FC5 …to advanced for me….now thinking of giving SUSE 10 a try …hope i have better luck..
Madhur Kapoor
4 Nov 06 at 3:20 am
FC5 was nice, heavy though. You will find SUSE comfortable if you have an excellent workstation at your desk. Else its slow like hell. To add Kalpik’s words “Never seen such a polished distro before”
Harsh J
4 Nov 06 at 8:06 am
But Ubuntu still rocks , I got GRUB loaded again, thanks Qwerty !
teen
4 Nov 06 at 9:57 am
I’m still on Dapper though !
teen
4 Nov 06 at 9:57 am
If you upgrade to Edgy, do it via a Disc and not the internet. The latter breaks.
Ubuntu’s the most easiest and smoothest of all, but in a workstation I guess it ain’t okay to use a Debian distribution.
Harsh J
4 Nov 06 at 10:24 am
Qwerty , I’ve stared a new Hamachi network , join there and we’ll play Warcraft 3!
id : war3forall
pass: warcraft
i have version 1.20 E ( Warcraft 3)
And dota map 6.37
teen
4 Nov 06 at 11:35 am
Why it ain’t Ok to use Debian in workstation environment?
mehul
4 Nov 06 at 2:53 pm
Just haven’t seen one around, so… yeah. You get certifications by Debian?
Harsh J
4 Nov 06 at 5:59 pm
Nope Debian is quite good but yeah it fails in asthetic appeal. And it feels a bit outdated unless you use testing repositories. I don’t think you have Debain certifications but Ubuntu’s prolly coming out with one.
mehul
5 Nov 06 at 2:54 am
If they do, I hope the industry accepts it. It might get crushed between RH and N?
Harsh J
5 Nov 06 at 9:21 am
Nope it won’t. Already Ubuntu has pulled in such a huge community under the noses of those two in a short time. And if there’s a community out there for it, that community will promote the distro. So, enterprises are likely to accept it. Also, if they make trained professionals available we might see quite a lot of servers migrating from RHL to Ubuntu.
And as I said before OSS industry still has enough room to accomodate about half a dozen more competitors. Maybe no one else will agree to this but this is what I feel.
mehul
5 Nov 06 at 11:32 am
why not install RealPlayer to run .rm files?
saurabh.sauron
5 Nov 06 at 6:19 pm
Well saurabh from what I can make from his post, he’s already installed real player. And the linux version of the real player really sucks.
@harsh you checked codecs from mplayer’s site? I guess they have some codecs to play rm files too. Maybe those will help.
mehul
5 Nov 06 at 6:52 pm
@mehul – Oh okay, hope it makes it big, I like Debian
@saurabh – I got all real media playing codecs, one managed to play the audio alone, the official one on both windows and Linux said the codec used in the file is old and not supported anymore. Too bad VLC doesn’t play it. MPC does the job on Windows.
Harsh J
5 Nov 06 at 10:21 pm
i think u should try installing win32codecs pack using apt.mplayer will play or xine also can.
prakash kerala
7 Nov 06 at 1:11 am
I got all codecs and even tried all dev packages, it just doesnt play those RM files. On Windows as I said, only Real Alternative plays it.
Harsh J
7 Nov 06 at 6:05 pm