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Actually video encoding would be the most important thing to me. I want to be able to have all those program open WITH multiple pass video encoding. A 1 hour and 30 min video should be done encoding in 25 mins with 2 pass encoding for example.

I got (cheap) quad core on my desktop so I have the specs, just curious about this fact.

 

If you find the program or run wine, I'm sure it would be good with that quad core.
Look at my specs, I have a single core with no slow downs.

 

Give an Ubuntu Live CD a whirl. Won't cost you nothin'. Won't install nothin'. Runs completely off the CD.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCD

Just download and burn unto a CD. Keep in mind that running Ubuntu off the cd is slower than running Ubuntu off a hard drive given that a CD rom drive is significantly slower than a harddrive.

Enjoy.

 

Very, Ubuntu is very zippy off the HDD though.

 

am currently running 8.04 Hardy... the fun part is that there are BIG updates nearly every day!

Like today... for some reason I had to remove Firefox 3 to install some updates... so I'm on Firefox 2 for now Q.Q....

and yesterday new ATi / Intel drivers were released too...

 

just to clarify, my point was not to just blaim industry, call them evil, etc. but to make the point that linux difficulties are not the fault of linux.

the turbotax case was an example that makes this clear. walmart linux pc owner buys a copy of turbotax, takes it home, and it does not work. That does not mean linux is more difficult to use, it means turbotax did not release a linux version.

same for drivers. hardware comes with windows drivers. if they came with linux drivers as well, linux would be much easier than windows xp, but they dont, this is not the fault of linux.

In fact, linux has done an amazing job of providing drivers. start with a fresh install of each someday, and look into how much works off the bat (i know for a fact much more works for me on linux pre special drivers, than it does pre driver disk on windows). and then see how much trouble it is for you to get the drivers installed. After several installs of windows, and one of linux, i already find linux much simpler.

 

People, you say it's hard to get hardware to work in linux, but in Windows you have to install drivers(many) & in linux you only have two, so what does it matter if they come preloaded on a disc?