raspbian

[gaula92]

@kickstart: DISABLE Xorg on the Pi. You can do so by running the "raspi-config" command.
Then you use "omxplayer" to play videos and audio clips using the Rpi's custom video & audio cores (wich, in fact, are similar to the Amiga custom chips).

FullHD video and high-bitrate MP3, OGG or FLACs are perfectly playable on the Pi with no problems whatsoever. Xorg *is the problem*.
The Pi can even emulate a Sega MegaDrive and SegaCD, PC-Engine, NES, etc... at rock-solid 60FPS using the custom cores to scale the graphics to fullHD resolutions without using the CPU.
I made clean instructions here:

http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=56070


@other: he's talking about the default Raspbian distro, not RaspBMC or other alternatives. The fun part is to get all these things going on the Pi with a complete OS, not inside some crippled HTPC enviroment.

[gaula92]

@kickstart: forget about Xorg on the Pi, really. You're going to get a VERY wrong impression of the machine's possibilities using that broken enviroment.
Linux command line is easy and you should go for it: learn and grow. It's a powerful OS and you're missing A LOT by not using it.
You can start with simple and rewarding tasks, like mounting a disk, navigating it's filesystem and playing a movie with OMXPlayer, then go for something harder like compiling RetroArch and playing SonicCD GNU/Linux is fun! Only people without abstraction capabilities will tell you otherwise.

Using a broken enviroment like Xorg doesn't mean learning how to use GNU/Linux: it's a poor excuse for a graphical enviroment, slow as a dog an ugly as hell.
It's all about learning while using a computer. You'll find it's very rewarding.

[gaula92]

Lol The Pi is a learning tool but I still can't believe what I've just read in an Amiga forum. Learning the command line seems like advising someone to learn MS DOS, but worse you may not be able to just "cd" to a drive when you plug it in. How things have changed from the Windows 3.11 runs on DOS therefore it's crap and you need a real UI and OS like the Amiga's

You don't know what you're talking about.