I agree with you Trent.

Linux is still lacking in the desktop department.  The desktop looks pretty,
but lacks a complete, easy install.

I too got my parents a mac.

-Matt



On 1/3/07, Trent Shipley <trent_shipley@qwest.net> wrote:
>
> My test play of the BBC finally worked.
>
> I had to Google for a Linux sound How-To.  That led me to suspect alSa
> since I
> always run KDE.  I found a check box to sleep alsa, but that didn't seem
> to
> help.  Non-KDE sound still wouldn't work.  Then, guessing that ameroK was
> a
> KDE application I found I could play an MP3 file.  Further poking around
> showed that ameroK was simply wrapping Helix and Helix had commercial
> extensions.
>
> So I removed Firefox's reference to RealPlayer in its plugins list.  Then
> I
> searched for amerok in my file system.  After that I redirected Firefox to
> launch ameroK instead of RealPlayer10 to play a streaming *.ram file.
> Finally, streaming sound.
>
> And all this was with a fairly idiot friendly distribution, SuSE 10.0.
>
> Somedays I really question how ready for the desktop Linux really is.
>
> It also reminds me why I got my Mom a Mac.
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