On 23 February 2014 15:18, Michael <h...@ukcentre.com> wrote: > I too avoid "MS Windows" as far as possible.
You too? As well as whom? Your message is not a reply so we don't know to whom else you are comparing yourself. > The latest Chrome and Firefox updates now mean that one can use Eurosport > Player and Love film on either, many thanks to the Wine/Pipelight team for > their determination ! I had not heard of Pipelight before. It looks interesting, although I don't watch sport online so have no direct need for it, and I don't pay for streaming services as there are so many free ones with no DRM. > No, "Word", Libreoffice does it all. Sadly, not everything, but I agree it does most of what I need. It is poor at macros and .docx handling is imperfect. > No expensive film decoder, VLC will decode a film from any region, without > tripping a region change in a DVD player, that dreaded 4 changes only thing > ! Yes, that's handy, but VLC doesn't use all of a GPU's acceleration features so performance is not always all it should be. > The Ubuntu cost advantage, even if one donates to the design teams, a > donation will be far less than a MS operating system cost, or film decoder > cost. That's true. Although Apple now has made Mac OS X 10.9 free of charge; there is debate that Microsoft may follow with Windows 9. Windows 8.1 is a free upgrade from 8, which is a first for the company. > Thanks to Canonical for their international support, can it possibly get > better ? I have never used it. Do tell - I've never talked to anyone who's used their paid-support services. > All will be revealed in 12.04. I know from your follow-on message you meant 14.04. LTS releases are usually quite conservative - don't expect all that much! -- Liam Proven * Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk * GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com * Skype/AIM/Yahoo/LinkedIn: liamproven Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 * Cell: +44 7939-087884 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
