Don´t you just hate it when you buy something, and everything works like it should? Isn´t it much more fun that you buy, for instance, an MSI Wind netbook with SUSE linux on it, and, like, NOTHING works? That is soooo cool! I just love it that it´s a new computer, januari 2009, and it won´t play a simple AVI file! And to make it more interresting, it WILL NOT install codecs, at least not in any intuitive way I have tried, and refuses to install software that actualy might play some media files… I´m having so much fun! I think maybe it was when I discovered a Root password is needed almost everytime I try to do anything at all, is when I decided to have the ´I heart SUSE Linux´ tattoo on my Butt. But thats a tough one, because it could also be the fact that the disc is crammed with 50 or more tiny programmes, but the pictograms are so un’intuitive that they don´t give a clue what the h*ll the program might be used for. A lot of em seem to have something to do with Primates (or are designed by? … can´t tell) which is great, since I totaly support Nature. Basicaly, its all great! I would like to thank everyone involved for making my life so much more interresting! Thanks guys, keep up the good work!
Sarcasm?
If this is a rant, your posting in the wrong place.
Multi-media and Restricted Format Installation Guide - openSUSE Forums
Any commends, please feel me to mail me. My email adress is emannigol@linuxmail.org
Regards,
Eman Nigol
Sarcasm? No! No! Since I´m Dutch and not a native english speaker, my poor use of the english vocabulary might have given my post an unwanted and unintended, uhh, bijsmaakje. Sorry, don´t know the proper word. Really, linux is great! I even switched from lame boring hotmail to the much cooler linuxmail.org adress! I´m just overwhelmed by happiness! lol!
Regards,
Good to hear!
Enjoy.
Keep up the good work;) and welcome to the forum
I just discovered there is much much more to enjoy! After some searching I found a sort of How To install a program called MPlayer. It involved downloading something like 23 different files from a variety of sites, in 2 or 3 different languages. Now, if you manage to execute them in a specific order, and pay close attention to a dozen parameters, you might in the end be able to get it playing a simple mp3 file! Jippie! This is just so superior to, say, download one file with a simple install option that gets the program working in 5 minutes, because where is the opportunity to grow in that? I wonder how that darn Bill Gates fellow and his silly MScrew have managed to stay on top of the game for so long. But now thanks to SUSE Linux and its userchallenging software I think their days of money counting are, err, counted and the Linux age may finaly begin! Speaking for me, the whole experience left me a little sentimental, throwing me back in ´the good old days toying aroud with my first 80286´ with such force I feel like wetting my bed out of sheer nostalgia. Know what? I think I will! Here is drinking an extra tall glass of water to SUSE Linux! Cheers!
Hi and welcome
You do realize that the the free gstreamer fluendo mp3 codec is
installed by default?
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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 11.1 x86 Kernel 2.6.27.7-9-default
up 5:25, 1 user, load average: 0.14, 0.13, 0.22
GPU GeForce 6600 TE/6200 TE - Driver Version: 180.22
[QUOTE=malcolmlewis;1934533]Hi and welcome
You do realize that the the free gstreamer fluendo mp3 codec is
installed by default?
Thank you for taking no notion of my peeing comments and skipping straight to the tech babble. God I love geeks, they´re so easy to fool.
So it can play mp3 straight out of the box, what an amazing feat! Since my brand new MSI Wind can´t do much else untill I get home and have the time to ripp this stupit SUSE ***** from my system and install a proper Operating System on it, at the very least it can function as a 300 euro mp3 player with a really big screen.
Enough with the charade. Isn´t it obvious by now that I´m really really really sick and tired of the stupid linux crap installed on my hardware? It´s so lame, I wouldn´t even call it an operating system in the same way that I don´t point to a stack of wooden planks nails and a hammer if someone asks me for a chair. You linuxnerds (and I use the term nerd as a compliment) should take a step back and look at your linux community from a distance. After that, look up the words USERFRIENDLY and UNCOMPLICATED on wiki. Make some connections, and maybe, a few years from now, you´ll be getting something that remotely resembles a proper operating system.
But I´m keeping the linuxmail.org mail adres! Makes me look intelligent!
Regards,
Eman Nigol
Botswana
Hi
Must be bored with your cable tv service in Venezuela then? Enjoy which
every operating system you decide to use 
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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 11.1 x86 Kernel 2.6.27.7-9-default
up 9:59, 3 users, load average: 0.32, 0.17, 0.06
GPU GeForce 6600 TE/6200 TE - Driver Version: 180.22
Imagine what would happen if there was any linux distribution crazy enough to supply us nerds with say… a mplayer one-click installer.
That would surely ruin all the fun of tracking down which programs are needed to compile it after downloading the source.
Maybe in a few years after we found other things to play with, then just maybe… something like starting up YaST software management, clicking repositories > add > community repositories > add > packman and searching for mplayer / selecting it / clicking finish would be a big enough challenge leaving time for that ‘other fun thing’ we found by then.