[nzlug] Where to start... where to start...

[Steve Withers]

I was pretty much 100$ Linux for over 6 years, then had to resort to Windows
for (easy/ simple / fast) video editing and other multimedia tasks. All the
Linux video editing software I tried either seg-faulted immediately or was
impenetrably obtuse as far as actually using it was concerned. Cinelerra
came the closest, but the sound was messed up on all attempts and it could
read only a limited number of video formats. Too hard.

So now I use Windows as my main system on two PCs and one laptop, while
Linux  isued mainly for surfing the web, e-mail and  burning CDs / DVDs of
photos from my digital camera and videos made on Windows.

If Linux had something as simple and easy to use as Windows Movie maker,
that would be good enough for  me.

On Feb 11, 2008 7:54 PM, Nick Taylor <nick at tangerineworks.com> wrote:

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> Hello folks. Noob here.
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> For years I've been saying "right that's the last MS machine I'm going
> to get" and now it's finally happened. New Laptop... Vista pre-installed
> (entirely against my will) but with xp on disc if so-desired etc...
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> so it looks like Ubuntu is where I'm headed.
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> I write web-apps for people who use Windows and IE, so I'm kindof
> thinking that maybe it might be a good idea if I can dip into Windows/IE
> for testing things, but the rest of the time stay with Linux.
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> Which (I imagine) would probably mean either having a dual-boot system
> or running windows in some sort of... window, or something. Which I'd
> prefer because... rebooting is a pain in the arse.
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> What do you reckon?
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> I'm a fairly adept PHP bloke (about 8 years experience etc) - but my
> linux knowledge is about the same as my dos knowledge... about 10 words
> - Enough for rudimentry server admin, but that's about it.
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> Any pointers, advice etc?
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> Nick
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