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Originally Posted by johnston411
I use amarok for music on ubuntu and vlc for all video playback.
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Excellent, I'll give Amarok a try then. I don't think she's too bothered about video other than YouTube so MPlayer is fine for now.
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Originally Posted by johnston411
I haven't tried Gos but i may give it a whirl. is there a live cd for it?
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The ISO download from their website IS a live CD. I booted off that and ran it from the CD. The desktop then has an icon to run an installer if you like what you see. Just bear in mind that any setting up you do on the Live CD version won't get replicated accross if you choose to install to disc.
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Originally Posted by johnston411
Oh and if you get a chance have a play with advanced desktop settings and compiz.
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gOS turns off all the advanced stuff. I did work my way through an Ubuntu tutorial a fw weeks ago that basically turned Ubuntu into OSX. No particular point to it but it did demonstrate the awesome flexibility of Ubuntu.
What's compiz?
I keep meaning to get emacs installed. I have fond memories of that from 10+ years ago when I was a PERL/CGI programmer on BSD.