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Re: Sunday Morning Video: GNU/Linux Greatness

From SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er>
Subject Re: Sunday Morning Video: GNU/Linux Greatness
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.advocacy
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Organization blocknews - www.blocknews.net
Date 2018-09-09 23:52 +0000

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On Sun, 09 Sep 2018 22:53:30 +0000, F. Russell wrote:

> On Sun, 09 Sep 2018 13:46:37 -0400, DFS wrote:
> 
> 
>>  VLC (3.0.3 Vetinari)
>> 
>> 
> VLC?  Ha, ha, ha!  That's a heap of junk.
> 
> VLC is very popular among the Linux dummies because it's the only video
> player that has a GUI, and a dummy can't do anything without his ersatz
> "buttons."
> 
> But the true GNU/Linux user will always choose mpv or mplayer as his
> video player

VLC is fantastic, Fabian. I don't see why a person needs to hold onto an 
archaic way of handling media when it's completely unnecessary. Not only 
that but VLC is the only way, as far as I know, of playing Blu-Ray in 
Linux.

-- 
SilverSlimer
FSF Contributor / EFF Member / Free speech advocate
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Sunday Morning Video: GNU/Linux Greatness "F. Russell" <fr@random.info> - 2018-09-09 14:28 +0000
  Re: Sunday Morning Video: GNU/Linux Greatness Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-09-09 07:43 -0700
  Re: Sunday Morning Video: GNU/Linux Greatness Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-09-09 10:33 -0700
  Re: Sunday Morning Video: GNU/Linux Greatness DFS <nospam@nospam.com> - 2018-09-09 13:46 -0400
    Re: Sunday Morning Video: GNU/Linux Greatness Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-09-09 11:05 -0700
    Re: Sunday Morning Video: GNU/Linux Greatness Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2018-09-09 13:15 -0700
      Re: Sunday Morning Video: GNU/Linux Greatness Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-09-09 13:58 -0700
      Re: Sunday Morning Video: GNU/Linux Greatness DFS <nospam@nospam.com> - 2018-09-09 21:12 -0400
        Re: Sunday Morning Video: GNU/Linux Greatness Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-09-09 19:11 -0700
        Re: Sunday Morning Video: GNU/Linux Greatness Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-09-09 20:14 -0700
    Re: Sunday Morning Video: GNU/Linux Greatness "F. Russell" <fr@random.info> - 2018-09-09 22:53 +0000
      Re: Sunday Morning Video: GNU/Linux Greatness Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-09-09 16:02 -0700
        Re: Sunday Morning Video: GNU/Linux Greatness Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-09-09 17:21 -0700
      Re: Sunday Morning Video: GNU/Linux Greatness SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-09-09 23:52 +0000
        Microsoft's DTV-DVD audio/video decoders. Jeff-Relf.Me  @. - 2018-09-09 18:51 -0700
          Re: Microsoft's DTV-DVD audio/video decoders. Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-09-09 21:16 -0700
          Re: Microsoft's DTV-DVD audio/video decoders. SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-09-10 15:01 +0000
        Re: Sunday Morning Video: GNU/Linux Greatness "F. Russell" <fr@random.info> - 2018-09-10 09:21 +0000
          Re: Sunday Morning Video: GNU/Linux Greatness Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-09-10 03:31 -0700
          Re: Sunday Morning Video: GNU/Linux Greatness SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-09-10 15:07 +0000
            Re: Sunday Morning Video: GNU/Linux Greatness chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2018-09-10 10:22 -0500
              Re: Sunday Morning Video: GNU/Linux Greatness Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-09-10 09:47 -0700
            Re: Sunday Morning Video: GNU/Linux Greatness Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-09-10 08:43 -0700
            Re: Sunday Morning Video: GNU/Linux Greatness fr314159@gmail.com - 2018-09-10 09:00 -0700
              Re: Sunday Morning Video: GNU/Linux Greatness Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-09-10 12:46 -0700
              Re: Sunday Morning Video: GNU/Linux Greatness SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-09-10 23:25 +0000
                Re: Sunday Morning Video: GNU/Linux Greatness DFS <nospam@nospam.com> - 2018-09-12 13:39 -0400
                Re: Sunday Morning Video: GNU/Linux Greatness SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-09-12 18:31 +0000
                Re: Sunday Morning Video: GNU/Linux Greatness Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-09-12 12:16 -0700
                Re: Sunday Morning Video: GNU/Linux Greatness Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-09-12 13:32 -0700

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