I have Xandros which I was told would be a great halfway house between the windows stuff and that of Linux. I can’t play DVDs - it just gives me the FBI warning again and again. I have heard this is something to do with copyright laws? So I can’t play DVD’s at all even though I purchased them legitimately and didn’t just DL them or such.

One can’t play .wma files which a great many sites that have bands audio available to sample use. That bites…

I am told you can program your iPod to work with it just fine, though no one I know has ever done this or heard exactly how you do it.

My computer has miss-assigned the wrong audio card as well for some reason when installing Xandros. It tells me I have one thing when the person who built it for me says it is another entirely, even though he is familiar with linux, he says he’s never even gotten behind a Xandros desktop and has no idea how to change this.

These are the issues I have with my linux desktop and are what stops me from being really gung-ho about it. Though I’d love to be. Simply put, I have only half a computer it seems like, and Xandros was one version I was told is almost entirely ‘ready to go’.. So much for that. Do I just need to find another version of Linux that is easier to manage in these regards, or are they all the same, i.e. none of them play dvd’s, wma’s, etc?

I’ve always felt that there are two groups of people that will enjoy desktop Linux: computer enthusiasts who care about their computer and infrequent computer users who don’t give a rat’s @ss about their computer. Those two groups will do well.

Anyone else is probably not going to enjoy desktop Linux very much.