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I'm not sure where you missed the fact that I can't play full-screen DVD's (both discs and iso's) in ubuntu (I would venture to say a very important feature for
by jawngee 18y ago
I'm not sure where you missed the fact that I can't play full-screen DVD's (both discs and iso's) in ubuntu (I would venture to say a very important feature for the desktop/consumer OS) without it playing back at around 10fps. If I boot into Windows on my other partition, I can playback multiple DVD's fluidly.
On the same machine.
Finally, I'm not an OS fanboy of any persuasion. In fact, I've only been using Mac's for the last two years (though I cut my teeth on them 15 years ago). I use all three platforms almost equally. Linux, Ubuntu in particular, is the weakest experience of them all. In fact, I would put even BeOS in front of Ubuntu in terms of consistency.
Finally, I've done a shit load of hardcore UI desktop development over the last dozen years, so I have a sensitivity to it, I guess. Linux is just not there.
I have gripes about OSX, but at least when I drag a window it doesn't turn black, or it can resize the window in real time. All of the native apps have the same consistent UI elements. Basic fundamental shit.
- joeyo 18y ago> I'm not sure where you missed the fact that I can't play > full-screen DVD's (both discs and iso's) in ubuntu (I > would venture to say a very important feature for the > desktop/consumer OS) without it playing back at around > 10fps. What video card / drivers are you using? It sounds like you simply don't have accelerated video drivers. I frequently play 720p video fullscreened in linux. The same goes for your comment about not being able to resize a window in real time. It sounds like you a have a fairly broken linux experience. Completely agree with you about UI consistancy, though.
- dcminter 18y ago"I'm not sure where you missed the fact that I can't play full-screen DVD's (both discs and iso's) in ubuntu" No, I didn't miss that. Something doesn't work for you under Ubuntu on a particular hardware platform? Sorry, but that fails to convince me as proof that Ubuntu's not ready for prime time. Windows has stupid failings on some hardware. Apple dodge the bullet by controlling their hardware but I'd be surprised if Hackintoshes (or Darwin) were consistently stable on all arbitrary platforms. Does not work for me != Useless.