Ready to move to Linux. What Distribution is the most Windows like (GUI) and has the most applications?
Friday, September 11th, 2009 at
21:57
WIthout having to learn source code to download? Do any Distributions have browser, audio, video player and built in flash players?
Tagged with: distributions • flash players • source code • video player
Filed under: Linux Applications
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Ultimate Edition 2.0. It’s basically Ubuntu super tweaked.
Get it here:http://ultimateedition.info/
Ubuntu is very similar. It does include browser, audio, and video players.
You can go to distrowatch.com and see the most popular distributions.
They all have browsers. You will probably need to install a video player, as there are licencing restrictions on these. Flash player will need downloading the same as on a Windows machine. Any distribution with the Gnome or KDE (KDE is nearest) desktop will be similar to Windows. The applications packaged are similar on all of them.
http://distrowatch.com/
Also, read this thread, it may help….
http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread149294.html
You are ready for Ubuntu. I have been using it for over a year now, quite pleased with it.
The link below shows step by step how to install, and install all codecs required to play music/video/flash/java etc etc.
Good luck, you will like it! And the Ubuntu repositories (software sources) have thousands of free programs for download.
Ubuntu -
http://www.ubuntu.com/
You should start out with Ubuntu. It already has a web browser by default (Firefox), and a video player (totem); However you may need to download a few codecs, they will download automatically when you try to play a format that is not supported. A really popular audio player is Amarok, you can find it in "add/remove applications." You will also need to download the flash player manually: Go to the Terminal and type in:
sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree
If you really want to make Ubuntu look like windows you can download themes from this website.
http://gnome-look.org/
LInux Mint, it’s based on Ubuntu but better customized for the new user switching from Windows