On 1/23/2014, Silver Slimer posted:
On Thu, 23 Jan 2014 20:41:04 -0500, Gene E. Bloch
wrote:

On 1/23/2014, Silver Slimer posted:
On Thu, 23 Jan 2014 13:26:30 -0500, Gene E. Bloch
wrote:

Or not. For a day or two, I've been toying with a Linux HTPC
(Home Theater PC) setup whose website, documentation, and help
are quite uninformative :-)

I've given up on that one...

A GNU/Linux based project being half-assed? I'm shocked!

Shocked! I say...

I've made a small amount of progress. No, I don't mean I just
realized I'm an idiot for doing this, but let me think about
that...

Having stared at meaningless screens a bit, the things I saw made
me read the Doc a bit more knowledgeably. Also, I think I realize
that the live CDs are meant to be front ends (i.e., user
interfaces) only, so you need to install the system and do a bit of
work to be able to use the tuner.

Still, suddenly I like WMC a lot better :-)

You are no doubt shocked that I haven't resolved all of my
confusions in this area. But I'll say this: it won't take much to
make me abandon this quest. I'm not as crazy as I might seem...

The thing about GNU/Linux is that it has a large number of excellent
potential products. The problem is that instead of pooling their
resources and focusing on the most important and/or promising
projects, they divide their resources in such a way that instead of
producing a dozen or so must-have applications, they produce a few
hundred absolute trash ones.

Could be. This stuff tends to be open source and crowd source, after
all, and we don't have too many cat herders in that world :-)

But the real problem for me is that the processes involved are not
obvious, and the websites don't seem to provide adequate[1] clues about
how to proceed.

Which gets us back to cat herding, since the documentation is also open
source etc...

I did look online today (Google) long enough to see that I might be
able to get it going if I am willing to work hard enough. But it seems
that I'm not...

[1] That has to mean adequate *for me*, of course :-)

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Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)