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03-26-2016, 08:45 AM
For DLP, yes and more. Where with Windows, you have a lot of 'codec add-ons', most are already in Ubuntu Linux. There is a an update function that updates your software when they have fixes, and there are exceedingly-few viruses for Linux due to the nature of how it works (you don't need to run AV software, as a result). As for file formats, MP3, MP4, AVI, and lots of others are supported. About the only thing you sometimes run into are proprietary formats, but even then (like WTV for windows TV recordings in Media Center), someone has created support for them also.
I find the support for Ubuntu, in general, better than Windows - and most programs you grab on the 'software' page (you download them) is free too. I installed Rhapsody Music Player, and can play my podcasts, as well as listen to internet radio through it. I have to admit, it's been really fun learning it for the past month, and I've been able to get things done as well, while I did. Its been a low-price to pay, for learning a new system. The only thing some may not like is having to install programs from the command line sometimes. Microsoft made us afraid of command line decades ago, and now no one wants to type anything to install something.
One word of warning, if you have an iPod, iPad, etc.. and are using the Apple sync software iTunes, you will lose it in Ubuntu. The insane irony of not having a Linux version of iTunes is that Apple, after professing not to want to depend on Microsoft, and not wanting to be like Microsoft, has attached themselves to Microsoft in this way - and when they are a UNIX derivative just like Linux, the humor is not lost on me.
You can use Rhapsody to listen to podcasts and to subscribe to podcasts and to play music and build music libraries, but no luck with various Apple peripherals and 'sync-ing' them via your computer in Linux (unless you just have Linux installed on top of Windows, which doesn't fix this problem).
@escholars - if it is just one site, it may be the site's routing for that visit. If it is constant, then it could be heavy traffic pick-up (due to someone else at that location), or if a large server (like Amazon's Cloud) then it could be due to an IT issue at their location (server rebuild, maybe). Give it 24 hours and try again, if still like that, then either their server changed, or your route to them has (for whatever reason) taken a slower path, or someone is putting a lot of bandwidth demand on them that is being distributed to everyone trying to access the page.
I find the support for Ubuntu, in general, better than Windows - and most programs you grab on the 'software' page (you download them) is free too. I installed Rhapsody Music Player, and can play my podcasts, as well as listen to internet radio through it. I have to admit, it's been really fun learning it for the past month, and I've been able to get things done as well, while I did. Its been a low-price to pay, for learning a new system. The only thing some may not like is having to install programs from the command line sometimes. Microsoft made us afraid of command line decades ago, and now no one wants to type anything to install something.
One word of warning, if you have an iPod, iPad, etc.. and are using the Apple sync software iTunes, you will lose it in Ubuntu. The insane irony of not having a Linux version of iTunes is that Apple, after professing not to want to depend on Microsoft, and not wanting to be like Microsoft, has attached themselves to Microsoft in this way - and when they are a UNIX derivative just like Linux, the humor is not lost on me.
You can use Rhapsody to listen to podcasts and to subscribe to podcasts and to play music and build music libraries, but no luck with various Apple peripherals and 'sync-ing' them via your computer in Linux (unless you just have Linux installed on top of Windows, which doesn't fix this problem).
@escholars - if it is just one site, it may be the site's routing for that visit. If it is constant, then it could be heavy traffic pick-up (due to someone else at that location), or if a large server (like Amazon's Cloud) then it could be due to an IT issue at their location (server rebuild, maybe). Give it 24 hours and try again, if still like that, then either their server changed, or your route to them has (for whatever reason) taken a slower path, or someone is putting a lot of bandwidth demand on them that is being distributed to everyone trying to access the page.