On Tue, 27 May 2003, Matthias Saou wrote: > Igor Nestoroviæ wrote : > > > I am talking about newbies, from the Windows world, who used to have > > programs for playing audio and video files INCLUDED in the OS. > > Huh!? Don't tell me you can play DivX, ogg, RealAudio on Windows > _without_ downloading any additional software? I haven't actually used a > Windows based computer since the Windows 98, and at that time it wasn't > possible to play _anything_ with the base OS, not even uncompress .zip > files... people have told me it has since changed, but when I see people > complaining about the lack of "out-of-the-box" features for a GNU/Linux > distribution _compared_ to Windows, I find that almost insane. The "real world" operates in a separate reality from the anything-but-Microsoft world. In that strange world, people are more interested in playing video and audio than in the alphabet soup that this world babbles in. DivX, OGG, MP3, WMA, MP4 ... who cares? All a Windows user cares is that he can play video and audio -- streaming or file -- out of the box. He does not care that he is using WMA, WMF or MP3 as opposed to DivX and OGG. It just works most of the time, in a way that is only a dream in Red Hat. And that's what matters. Chris
