Things are getting much closer to Just Working (TM) but they still have
a little ways to go.

The newest version of Firefox does a pretty good job of automatically
installing Flash and I've never found a movie that Mplayer
( http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/info.html ) wouldn't play.

Quicktime movies are a bit of a problem but you could install Cross-Over
Office http://www.codeweavers.com/site/products/cxoffice/ and that might
solve a number of the other problems as well.

Brady

> 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
> 
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