Ok, so I have been a windows user for well, since I was a kid.
So since I am trying to switch to Linux, and all the reviews said Opensuse was #1 among the distros, I install it.
My other post was a specific request about truecrypt, but after I fixed(no idea how) the wi-fi connection, I decided to try and get other things running.
Flash:
An attempt to watch videos on youtube prompted a flash install, which seems like it wants to resolve dependencies continuously.
Videos:
An attempt to watch movies on my flash drive didn’t work, since the video player comes up with no results when it tries to find the codecs.
SMplayer:
Installed SMplayer when videos didn’t work, and it doesn’t play anything, just gets a message saying something went wrong.
Oops, something wrong happened
MPlayer failed to start. Please check the MPlayer path in preferences.
Log is thus:
mplayer -noquiet -nofs -nomouseinput -sub-fuzziness 1 -identify -slave -vo xv, -ao pulse, -nokeepaspect -nodr -double -input conf=/usr/share/smplayer/input.conf -stop-xscreensaver -wid 37748771 -monitorpixelaspect 1 -ass -embeddedfonts -ass-line-spacing 0 -ass-font-scale 1 -ass-styles /home/user/.config/smplayer/styles.ass -font Arial -subfont-autoscale 0 -subfont-osd-scale 20 -subfont-text-scale 20 -subcp ISO-8859-1 -subpos 100 -cache 2048 -osdlevel 0 -vf-add screenshot -noslices -channels 2 -af equalizer=0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0 -softvol -softvol-max 110 /run/media/user/0012-D687/movie name.avi
I guess my question is really this…
Am I doing something wrong here? Everything I try to install or use seems broken/unuseable outside of the packaged software. Every time I try to use something that didn’t come with the OS needs a special handshake or whatever.
Is there any way that I can use OpenSuse for everyday use without having to learn to write code?
I am very frustrated here.
Stuart