No more linux for me...

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I tried Windows 2000 on an old Pentium 200 with 64 MB of Ram and it was painfully slow, Debian runs fine on that setup. I ran Windows XP on a P2 333 with 128 MB Ram, it works but it's slow. Debian ran very good on that setup.

In linux it all depends on whatever Window Manager and similiar stuff you're running, on the computer with 64 MB Ram Window Maker was very nice, and on the P2 I used Gnome/SawFish.

But yes, some Linux dists. like Red Hat feels as bloated as Windows, well not really but almost. With Linux and a 2GB install you atleast get a few webbrowser, complete dev system and similiar but in Windows you get one crappy Web Browser, a crappy paint program, a crappy  Media Player and not much more worth mentioning.

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Why Windows Media Player 8 (or Media Player 9 for that matter) defined as crap in your view?

I say Windows Media Player 8 and 9 sucks because they're totally bloated, on a slow computer (p2 333, 128MB) it takes a long time to start and plays lot's of video files choppy (except MPEG1 and low quality DivX). The older versions of Media Player is a bit better since they won't take ages to start but they video playback doesn't seem to differ. Anyway on this very same computer running Linux and MPlayer almost any media file I have tried playing runs perfectly fine.

I must point out I heard MPlayer for Windows is as good as the Linux version which furthermore points out that M$ Media Player suckss.

Is there a superior all-in-one media player for Linux or a collection shovel-ware?

MPlayer is all in one, and I haven't stumbled across one single video-file it can't handle.

one crappy Web Browser

IF that was the case, 90 percent of world’s desktop users should select another browser.

Yes they should (Mozilla Firebird or Opera) and another OS for that matter. Not necessarily Linux though, it's far from perfect and you should have time to configure it and learn what's going on. But if you have alot of time to spend it's nice.

But I shouldn't really say anything, I'm using XP myself atm, all because of those damn games.