Re:How is Windows easier to use than Linux? (Score 0)

I'm with you. The only problems I've had with video on Mandrake 9.1 are simply because I haven't bothered to install all of the Win32 codecs. My Mandrake box running all of my web apps development stuff (web, database, email servers and a bunch of vi sessions in X-Terms) and OpenOffice at the same time (frequently with my email open too) runs a DiVX recording in Xine smoothly and with almost no glitches. Admittedly, I don't have as much memory as I want so when things swap out I get some hangs due to the increased I/O. But my wife's Windows machine with the same hardware specs won't even play the files in Media Player. You can't even follow what's going on it skips so much. That's assuming it plays at all.