Things are getting much closer to Just Working (TM) but they still have a little ways to go. The newest version of Firefox does a pretty good job of automatically installing Flash and I've never found a movie that Mplayer ( http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/info.html ) wouldn't play. Quicktime movies are a bit of a problem but you could install Cross-Over Office http://www.codeweavers.com/site/products/cxoffice/ and that might solve a number of the other problems as well. Brady > I have had linux running on my laptop for a few months now. I have has Suse > 9.1 Professional, Mandrake 10.0 and now Gentoo. It seems that I always get > myself into situations where I need to use a windows box to do something. An > example is playing movie files that just don't seem to play, or visiting > websites with a funny commercial on them. It always seems to be an effort. > There are a few other people I know that are running Linux, and everyone had > some minor problem playing a file. > > Am I the only one that has this problem? I really, really want to kiss Windows > goodbye as much as I can, but it's hard when I keep having to use it as a > crutch. It's also difficult to defent the "I don't use linux, because I don't > want to use a hobby os" when I'm doing all this work to get things that just > work in windows to function. > > Any tips or tricks or websites I may be missing. I just want Gentoo and KDE to > do everything my heart desires. I really love using Linux and don't want to > have to give it up again so I can be really productive again. > > Jason Reynolds > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org > Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -- Brady Hegberg <bradyh at bitstream.net> _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list