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Why can't my mom use Linux???

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billy_gates:

quote:Originally posted by TheQuirk:


Oh yeah? Well... Well...

Well, that's what your mom said last night!   :rolleyes:  
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lol.

Actually I have never been sucessful in getting Xine to play a DVD and it has only come preinstalled on SuSE 7.3, unless I'm missing something here.

emh:

quote:Originally posted by Billy Gates: Mac Comrade Captain:
what then if your mom wants to watch a dvd?  Now she has to find ogle, if she can't find an rpm for it after searching for the rpm at rpmfind.net.  She then has to download the source, type and su to make sure she is root.  Then she has to do ./configure make make install.  She will probably get errors in at least one, if not all 3 of these.  Now she has to make a link to ogle in the K menu since she compiled it by source.  Now she opens it and it doesn't open her cd by default, she has to do file open disc.  My mom can't do that.  But she could do it on OSX, just pop in the DVD and she's done.

Using somthing after it is setup is always a piece of cake, it is changing it and getting new stuff on it where linux becomes difficult for our mothers (and I)
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How many mothers actually watch DVD's on their computer?  Isn't that what a DVD player for a television set is for?

solo:
I agree that someone should address the installation woes of Linux, but come on, installing XINE is as simple (usuallY) as heading to rpmfind and downloading it, clicking Open when KDE asks you what to do. It's opened in KPackage and you just click install.

I think the program installation and other problems in Linux just has small problems that could be fixed easily. Like on Slackware I have to uncheck 'Check Dependencies' from KPackage because Slackware doesnt use RPM.

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