I'm a RETARD

Well, turns out that I don't have to do shit to get Kubuntu to have MPlayer as there is a convenient little installer program that will install it for me already waiting.  GUI MPlayer at that.  I'm a tard.  BUT!  It doesn't have codecs and when I try to put the codecs where they should go at /usr/local/lib/codecs/ the native unpacker program won't let me create the directory.  Something about permissions or something.

Also, the people who make MPlayer are incredibly smart retards for having all the controls in command line while the people who put together Kubuntu are full humans for making it so that even a tard like me can get most things to work.  Cheers to them.

I'm gonna see if VLC is in there somewhere because maybe it is useable by people who don't understand linux speak.

>>9
In any case, VLC just WORKS which is what I'm looking for.  It may suprise you but Kubuntu is very much ready for me it seems - everything works and is fairly easy to figure out.  I suppose I could let programmer elitists like you and others on this board chase me back to windows but it seems like I don't have to.

Whether it's a "frontend" or whatever, if I can work it through a GUI and it doesn't crash it's a success in my book.  So go ahead and separate the GUI and the program but remember your end users or you won't be able to sell it.  I don't think I should have to learn a new language to speak to my computer and I think most normal people would agree with me.

>>10
Thanks, that may come in handy at some point.  Seems like everything is working fine for now though.