Linux killer!

[tlc]

On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 08:28 -0600, akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 08:29:13AM -0500, tlc wrote:
> > 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 ...
> Have you tried mp2 files.

does this mean I have to go get one to try it :)

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