I hate the way he phrased that in the video...

He made it sound like a 'codec' is something extremely complicated and only Linux needs. Anything playing MP3 will have an MP3 decoder, its just that when you pay $200 for Windows some of that money goes to paying the license fee.

HOWEVER, installing the MP3 codec ain't that complicated. I did it just by getting it through apt, but I think if you open Add/Remove programs and type in MP3 its just there and you can click install.

Mouse sensitivity: you go System -> Preferences -> Mouse -> Motion and all settings for sensitivity and acceleration are there. No different to going into the Windows control panel.


I admit that it isn't completely polished, but he picked out the strangest things to have a niggle at. If I wanted to run down Linux I would say about (despite there being a huge range of apps) there are still some programs without Linux equivalents, graphics cards can be a bum to set up, and flash is difficult to install on 64-bit distros. Those are the kind of more important picky bits, not that you have to click one extra time to access the mouse settings.


Basically, Linux ain't perfect but he chose the weirdest things to complain about (including issues which don't exist) when there are plenty more problems with switching.

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I know, I used to have rockbox on an iriver H320 and was quite active on the forums.

However it will be a while until a port for these new players happens, and I don't have the programming knowledge to help out unfortunately (PHP is my limit!).

Well done, someone learnt how to copy and paste.
Next lesson, cutting and pasting...

But that's what you risk being an early-adopter.
A $100 store credit is still waaay more than most companies would offer.

And so what if its a store credit? Sensible early-adopters should think of it as...
"Ok, we took the risk and it didn't quite pay off, but now we get $100 of free accessories to go with our more-expensive iPhone!"

Yea, lol, that's my only [quite very major] problem - most of my music is in OGG, and like most I'm not a big fan of lossy-lossy transcoding

That's called looking after customers...

I'm starting to like Steve more and more - first starting the DRM dropping spree, and now this. The open letters make a nice personal touch too.

I used to be an iPod hater and buy from companies like iriver (still great products), but now I might convert.

'an entry'

A comment from me :)

Swag bag would be nice!

I'm from the UK but I saw the D-Backs play when I was in the states a few weeks ago. I thought I'd comment 'cos I recognised the team! That's all I have to comment :)