I have had linux running on my laptop for a few months now. I have has Suse 9.1 Professional, Mandrake 10.0 and now Gentoo. It seems that I always get myself into situations where I need to use a windows box to do something. An example is playing movie files that just don't seem to play, or visiting websites with a funny commercial on them. It always seems to be an effort. There are a few other people I know that are running Linux, and everyone had some minor problem playing a file. Am I the only one that has this problem? I really, really want to kiss Windows goodbye as much as I can, but it's hard when I keep having to use it as a crutch. It's also difficult to defent the "I don't use linux, because I don't want to use a hobby os" when I'm doing all this work to get things that just work in windows to function. Any tips or tricks or websites I may be missing. I just want Gentoo and KDE to do everything my heart desires. I really love using Linux and don't want to have to give it up again so I can be really productive again. Jason Reynolds _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list