Linux killer!

[tlc]

On Sat, 2005-10-29 at 13:46 +0100, malcolm wrote:
> I work in a school and we are thinking about Linux
> I put some test machines out - Fedora, Suse and Ubuntu
> The view of the students was Fedora was the best ..great so far
> Then we did the KDE v Gnome thing - Gnome won ... even better
> Then I asked the question  - so what do you think of Linux ?
> 'It sucks ! ' was the almost universal response ( students aged 11 to 18 )
> Why I asked .. It never falls over, XP dies all the time ... true they said
> OO is just like Office to use and doesn't munge up documents .. also 
> true they said
> It will save the school £20000 per year, so why does it suck
> 
> Because we can't watch Yahoo music videos   and that was it - Ok I did 
> point out that
> they weren't suppose to be watching them at all really but that doesn't 
> cut much ice with
> teenagers. So the problem is this - I am never going to get this off the 
> ground if I don't have
> the support of the kids. Windows Media is my Linux killer - Codeweavers 
> are OK but
> only support WMP 6.4 - I've never got gxine to work properly and the 
> Linux version of Real Player
> won't do the 'universal player' trick that the Windows one does.
> 
> Even the most angst ridden teenager admitted that 99% of Linux was 
> better than the Windows
> equivalent but not one of them wanted to use it simply because of the 
> lack of Windows Media plugins
> 
> Help .... please !
> 
mplayer and mplayer-plugin ... plays just about everything I have come
across ...

> M
>