Linux Getting Closer to Being Ready for the Desktop
Linux as a Desktop has been a work in progress for years now. After being flamed for complaining about it’s weaknesses, I decided to give it another chance to be fair. Most of my complaints have been about not being able to work with multimedia well so I decided to try out the newly released Linux Mint 7. That distribution is based on Ubuntu and comes with the more questionable media codecs and libraries pre installed. I have always preferered Fedora because it is more cutting edge, but it requires research an trial and error just to get it to play a DVD. Once Mint was installed, I popped in a DVD just to test it out and it started right up. I wasn’t able to play around with any mp3s as I was unable to network with my Windows machine, but I’ll get back to that later.
I was a bit skeptical of people’s comments that you no longer need to use the Command Line Interface (CLI), to install all your software, or really do anything. I set out trying to set everything up manually like I always had to do in Fedora, but I couldn’t get anything to work.
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I've been using it as a
I've been using it as a regular desktop for 5 plus years now.