Will you recommend fedora to a newcomer?

[Zubin Bharucha]

Jacques B. wrote:
>> Daily tasks: email, word processing, web surfing etc.
>> Entertainment: iTunes, video, mp3 etc.
>>
>> However all of these tasks can easily done using any modern linux
>> distribution.
>>     
> Unless it's changed, FC does not provide mp3 support out of the box,
> nor does it provide NTFS read support out of the box.  And installing
> browser plugins isn't quite as easy as Windows in all cases (some yes,
> some no - but I don't believe that part is unique to FC, but rather
> applies to all Linux distros).  As for iTunes, you can run it on MAC
> or Windows, but not Linux (don't know if the MAC version would be
> hackable to run on Linux, but not something you'd want your newbie to
> have to deal with certainly).
>
> Trying to play your favorite mp3s or surf a web site needing plugins
> that require manual install can kill the enthousiasm pretty quickly
> for a non-technical newbie.
>
> So if the distro does not provide support for a required feature,
> unless it can be easily installed I would look at a different distro. 
> In other words if FC still does not support mp3s and that is important
> to your friends, I'd be inclined to look to another distro unless you
> know of an easy way to install mp3 support.
>
> Jacques B.
>
>   
I still don't think that makes FC5 user-unfriendly. There are dozens of 
websites like 
http://stanton-finley.net/fedora_core_5_installation_notes.html that 
show people how to do things in a very simplified manner.
-Zubin