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[Meng Cheah]

Sy Ali wrote:
> On 1/1/06, David C. Chipman <dchipman-rYHPKw+MWrk at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 
>>        Hi Sy,
>>
>>                I just have one thing to say: Ladies and gentlemen, we have a crybaby on the list. Sy, if you don't want to figure things out, go back to Windows. It's perfect for you! Later,
> 
> 
> I don't take offense at this at all..
> 
> I don't want to /have/ to figure things out.  When I want to, then the
> ability should be there.  Linux is now almost at that balance.. so I
> can not waste my time when I don't have any to figure random crap out,
> and when I do have time I can spelunk into the depths of the system as
> my heart desires.
> 
> Windows was great to set up and get working, but it never stayed
> working for me, nor was it particularly forthcoming when I wanted to
> fiddle around.  It was a ceiling when I was inspired to work harder to
> learn stuff.
> 
> Linux was the other way around.. to get the basic things working, like
> X support.. I had to have mystical knowledge (like video chipset info,
> without having native tools to learn that) before I could use the
> system like a regular user.
> 
> Again, thankfully there is more of a balance, so I can get a system to
> actually work straight out of the box, and be a regular user.. and
> then take spare time to learn more as I see fit, instead of being
> forced to spend hours on troubleshooting what a simple reboot can fix.
> 
> Sure, it's offensive to want to take a shortcut and not want to learn
> from a problem.. but it lets me get on with my life.  I've seen
> bunches of mysteries, some of which I've never solved.. and I'm
> learning to not spend time in situations where that time won't pay
> off.
> 
> waah waahh.. I want my system to work for me.. waah it shouldn't be
> hard waah  =p

Happy New Year, Sy and I can relate to this.

Some years back, I started watching movies on my computer. I watched 
foreign VCDs, rented DVDs among others. I used Mplayer, Xine, VLC and 
Ogle. After a long day of work, you rent a movie for 2 days (sometimes 
1), you want it to just work. You want to kick back, chill and enjoy. 
You don't want to have to get it working and deprive yourself of time 
better used for sleeping, family or whatever. Also, one DVD may work but 
not the next due to different formats or whatever.

After a while, I watched movies on Windows unless I had the time and the 
inclination to watch it using Linux. Now, the mediaplayers in Linux are 
much better and I (hopefully) know a bit more :-)

Still, some weeks back, I had 1 movie playing in Xine but without 
subtitles  while VLC had no problem whatsoever. It could have been just 
a matter of configuration but I had no interest. VLC by default worked 
fine and I spent the time playing with some other aspect of Linux.

My 2 cents :-)


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