I'm in the same boat, still haven't tried to burn anything yet with
the BL burner and also have a license for Nero.

Nero says the drive supports BL re/write on the drive (in addition to
their web site claiming support), so I'm hopeful, however nero linux
hasn't updated in some time. I have to run deprecated hal with it but
it works fine for burning CDs and DVDs.

In time support will get improved upon greatly with the necessary
libraries to burn BLs. This is usually the case with Linux, we've
gotten some great hardware wins in recent years (first native USB3
kernel support), but software and functionality on the workstation
level is always behind Windows and even OS X.

Although I somewhat agree with you on the financial support, many
distros that have focused for-profit on the consumer and workstation
markets (not enterprise) typically only last so long before not making
enough cash flow to sustain themselves. So, people want their cake,
but they often don't want to pay for it.

FYI, it is advisable not to reply to a digest on this mailing list.

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Jeremy MountainJohnson
Jeremy.MountainJohnson at gmail.com


On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 9:08 AM, Kenneth Lynes <kenlynes at usa.net> wrote:
> In response to the difficulty of burning disks on linux, I found a version of
> Nerolinux and got a license for using it from Nero. The download was still
> available and it works fine so far burning dual layer dvd disks. I have only
> recently obtained a bluray burner and do not know if it will burn those yet,
> but I will try soon.
> I used the Nero version of burning software because I was familiar with it.
> I agree it is one of the main complaints I have with using linux OS that I can
> do these things easier on windows os. This is not a good thing to show new
> users. Most just want to do the usual things on linux they did on windows but
> not have to deal with all the stuff that tended to mess up their normal use
> such as the malware etc.
> I dont think most of the linux users would mind paying a small fee to use the
> OS if it would help get things like burning bluray disks resolved. No one
> wants to do all that work for nothing. Say a $10 fee to use a distro and get
> all the updates and free software compared to the cheapest version of windows
> 7 which is useful at all costing about $100 and virtually no free software to
> use on the OS.
> Until something like this happens and users can find an easy painless way to
> migrate to linux it will continue to be hard to convince someone it is in
> their best interest to do so.
> Ken