Soldato
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ok, so, once you have picked which version you are going to use, what now?
to get the internet fully working, what pluggins do you recommend? i guess java needs to be installed, but what else? i understand shockwave isnt available, or atleast it wasnt on mandriva, so is there an alternative?
then there is instant messaging, i have tried a few and think kmess and amsn seem to be the closest to live messenger, but neither are what i would call direct replacements. so does anyone recommend anything else?
i believe openoffice comes installed on some if not all. but i heard libreoffice is the better version as its made by the people that originally made openoffice before it went bad (if indeed it did go bad, i havent really used it a lot) so do people have a preference, or is there a better office suite available?
VLC seems to be the best all round mediaplayer i have come across, but its not really what i would class as a mediacentre replacement, more of a mediaplayer one, so is there a good all round mediacentre app?
finally, is there any other apps that people recommend?
sorry for all the questions but i really believed i would try linux and hate it, but i didnt, so i am keen to learn about it and take full advantage of it.
to get the internet fully working, what pluggins do you recommend? i guess java needs to be installed, but what else? i understand shockwave isnt available, or atleast it wasnt on mandriva, so is there an alternative?
then there is instant messaging, i have tried a few and think kmess and amsn seem to be the closest to live messenger, but neither are what i would call direct replacements. so does anyone recommend anything else?
i believe openoffice comes installed on some if not all. but i heard libreoffice is the better version as its made by the people that originally made openoffice before it went bad (if indeed it did go bad, i havent really used it a lot) so do people have a preference, or is there a better office suite available?
VLC seems to be the best all round mediaplayer i have come across, but its not really what i would class as a mediacentre replacement, more of a mediaplayer one, so is there a good all round mediacentre app?
finally, is there any other apps that people recommend?
sorry for all the questions but i really believed i would try linux and hate it, but i didnt, so i am keen to learn about it and take full advantage of it.
i went for mint 10 debian 64 bit, but there doesnt seem to be an official XBMC for debian 