Linux as a Desktop has been a work in progress for years now.  After being flamed for complaining about it’s weaknesses, I decided to give it another chance to be fair.  Most of my complaints have been about not being able to work with multimedia well so I decided to try out the newly released Linux Mint 7.  That distribution is based on Ubuntu and comes with the more questionable media codecs and libraries pre installed.  I have always preferered Fedora because it is more cutting edge, but it requires research an trial and error just to get it to play a DVD.  Once Mint was installed, I popped in a DVD just to test it out and it started right up.  I wasn’t able to play around with any mp3s as I was unable to network with my Windows machine, but I’ll get back to that later.

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