I've spent approximately 10 seconds looking through it. I'm no closer
to knowing how to get MP3s to play. 20 seconds more time and I've
managed (based on prior knowledge, mind you) to find the instructions on
adding codecs to gstreamer.
There are several problems here:
- I know what a codec is; most people I know do not.
- I still don't see anything about fonts. I recall not having the font Times
New Roman and such making interoperability with Windows difficult re my Resumé
looked like crap.
- The docs don't make straight recommendations; some of them say
OpenOffice.org is installed but you may want to install AbiWord and Gnumeric,
or that you can get multimedia in Firefox using totem or mplayer plug-ins
- Some of the docs (for example the one about installing totem or mplayer
plug-ins for Firefox) assume you've read other docs; some of those docs have
way too much information
A user who really doesn't know what they're doing-- for example, first-
time Linux user -- is going to look at this and say, "Gee. Linux is
really hard to use, I have to read all this complicated $#*@ and I still
haven't figured out how to get videos to play on the web or listen to
MP3s." He'll then go buy a Mac (obviously he's not into Windows).
In short, we already have the equivalent of the Windows Help File. If
you don't KNOW already what you want to do, you're NOT going to find out
how to do it.
** Changed in: ubuntu-docs (Ubuntu)
Status: Fix Released => Unconfirmed
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