On Sat, 2005-10-29 at 13:46 +0100, malcolm wrote: > I work in a school and we are thinking about Linux > I put some test machines out - Fedora, Suse and Ubuntu > The view of the students was Fedora was the best ..great so far > Then we did the KDE v Gnome thing - Gnome won ... even better > Then I asked the question - so what do you think of Linux ? > 'It sucks ! ' was the almost universal response ( students aged 11 to 18 ) > Why I asked .. It never falls over, XP dies all the time ... true they said > OO is just like Office to use and doesn't munge up documents .. also > true they said > It will save the school £20000 per year, so why does it suck > > Because we can't watch Yahoo music videos and that was it - Ok I did > point out that > they weren't suppose to be watching them at all really but that doesn't > cut much ice with > teenagers. So the problem is this - I am never going to get this off the > ground if I don't have > the support of the kids. Windows Media is my Linux killer - Codeweavers > are OK but > only support WMP 6.4 - I've never got gxine to work properly and the > Linux version of Real Player > won't do the 'universal player' trick that the Windows one does. > > Even the most angst ridden teenager admitted that 99% of Linux was > better than the Windows > equivalent but not one of them wanted to use it simply because of the > lack of Windows Media plugins > > Help .... please ! > mplayer and mplayer-plugin ... plays just about everything I have come across ... > M >
