maximus wrote:Firtasik wrote:
maximus wrote:Go ahead, try to play an encrypted DVD on Linux. I dare you.
Even with libdvdread & libdvdcss2?
In my experience, libdvdcss2 always takes a half hour minimum to get working. With every release, it seems like the installation routine changes just enough to throw me off completely. I mention DVD playback because it's one of the things that really should just work out of the box. Nobody wants to have to futz around with it.
I'm glad to see so many realists! A lot of things change just enough to throw us off completely, making us re-memorize a bunch of new steps all the time.
The majority of this happens every eight months or so:
1) Decide to install newest version of Linux. Ok, for the past 2 releases, configuration has been the same; this shouldn't take too long.
2) Network installer has changed and I can't use UNetBootin to extract the image to my USB stick like I have been for the past few years. Waste close to an hour trying to figure out why.
3) Give up and burn a DVD with the network install ISO, which almost defeats the purpose of installing from gigabit ethernet.
4) Install the system. It asks me if I want to upgrade. HELL NO, as the last two times it royally screwed up everything Linux and I had to end up reinstalling from scratch anyway (WASTING MORE TIME). So let's do a clean install from the get-go. Ok, that went well. Now let's get rid of Pulse Audio (see previous posts). Waste more time.
5) Now let's get rid of nouveau (see previous posts). Waste more time.
6) Now let's try to get these video and audio codecs installed without errors, so we can use programs other than VLC for playback. Waste more time.
7) Oh, for an "operating system" that gives me so many choices, I can only use Google Chrome as a web browser because Adobe decided to stop providing Flash on Linux for other browsers. Great.
8 ) Phew, all this was tedious, mind-numbing work...I think I'll kick back and watch some Netflix. Oh. What!? I have to go through another huge procedure that doesn't work for half the people who try it???
Luckily I haven't had to play an actual DVD on Linux in years (or Windows for that matter) - I just rip all of them with mencoder and stream them from my server. See, open source can be useful! 😊
I'm a user but not a fanboy (not implying anyone else who posted here is).
Just remember, there's no rule that says you can't use more than one operating system on the same machine. Luckily my machine can boot into Windows or Linux in 5 seconds flat (Windows actually boots faster than openSUSE 13.1), so switching between them is fast, but still annoying overall. 😎
I was expecting there to be a higher concentration of Linux users among retro gamers.
I was too. I guess it kind of makes sense, seeing that since the people here keep going back for more of MS-DOS and Windows 3x/9x! 🤣 Maybe our best memories are with the Microsoft systems, and not Linux.
- x86: Tandy 1000RL (HD+768K), Tandy 3000HD, 486DX33 VLB, 486DX50 VLB, Packard Bell Force 1998CDT (Pentium 133)
- 68K: Mac Plus 1MB (early), Quadra 700 (2), Quadra 950, Quadra 650
Clock multiplication is too new for me, as you can see!