On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 10:56 PM, Marko Vojinovic <vvmarko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > And install flash plugin in firefox. And skype. And googleearth. And maybe kmod- > nvidia, if he needs it. And wine, if he wants to play some windows games. And > VirtualBox, if he really needs true windows environment for something. > > And all multimedia stuff --- mplayer, VLC, xine, various good/bad/ugly codecs, > mp3 support, etc., from the two rpmfusion repos. > >> Then, >> when his wife or kids visit some media serving website, or try to >> listen to their iTunes music in Rhythmbox, the system will prompt them >> to click 'OK" a bunch of times to automatically install the correct >> codec support. > > And to provide root password a bunch of times. :-) > > But seriously, did I miss something here? Since when is that automatic? I > thought Fedora was forbidden to even point a link to a website with non- > free/patent-encumbered things, let alone automatically prompt you to install > them from rpmfusion?! Did something change in that respect lately? > > The only thing that came even remotely close to what you describe was that > Fluendo thing, which offered the user to *buy* codecs and licences for various > multimedia things. > > Really, in order to provide equivalent functionality of a typical Windows > desktop, Fedora requires more than one hoop to jump through. A novice user is > maybe better off installing Omega instead, if he doesn't want to bother with > this stuff. Many things to install to play a simple game of chess! Regards, Parshwa Murdia -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
