Who currently uses Linux?

[Harrison]

Well, there is a difference between learning and using!

[Stephen Coates]

Well, there is a difference between learning and using!

Exactly.

[Stephen Coates]

I finally got Debian installed. I don't understand this thing about it being difficult. It was dead easy. The only thing I really had to do was partition the disk and tell it where to install GRUB (which didn't work at first - I don't think I installed it properly, but it is fine now).

I installed the KDE version but would like to put GNOME on it as well so I will do that later.

I'm posting this from Konqueror.

[AlexJ]

Cool. Although you'll probably be liking Konqueror because it's different, personally I'd go with Iceweasel (which is Firefox).

Probably your next step will be to get codecs for MP3 and AVI playback sorted. Again, for MP3 at least, you'll have to look outside the standard Debian packages, but for AVI playback, the easiest solution is to use VLC player, which has pretty much all the standard video codecs (DivX, XviD, X264, MPEG etc.) built in.

I'm not sure if E-UAE is available as a package within Debian as standard, but if you wasn't and you wanted to give it a go, there's my quick guide to doing it with Ubuntu which would probably work with Debian as well.

[Stephen Coates]

I actually went and downloaded Opera soon after, so I didn't even bother with Iceweasel.

Not sure why I need to play MP3s or videos on Debian though .

I would be interested in trying E-UAE and comparing it to WinUAE.

[AlexJ]

Not sure why I need to play MP3s or videos on Debian though .

You don't need to, it's just something some people like to do

[Stephen Coates]

Why do people keep saying Debian is difficult?

Seems to be working fine here so far with hardly any issues.