| Re: Slightly OT- Attention! Anime fans who use Linux [message #353752 is a reply to message #353743] |
Mon, 02 October 2017 19:53   |
E. Liddell
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On Mon, 02 Oct 2017 11:11:33 -0700, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
> On 09/28/2017 05:05 AM, E. Liddell wrote:
>> On Tue, 26 Sep 2017 17:09:33 -0700, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
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>>> But I also use KDE's Plasma which is a Desktop Environment
>>> that lets you use a wide variety of tools adaptable to the watching of
>>> anime and reading of manga. VLC for anime and Gwenview for manga.
>>> Any good drawing program(Krita) will let you create manga or even
>>> comix or comics if you have the talent and drive.
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>> Basically, you can use any Linux program under any viable Linux desktop
>> environment (although if it's a program specifically packaged with a
>> different DE, you'll need its libraries too). There are a lot of
>> desktop options. VLC and Gwenview aren't associated with any
>> particular DE as far as I can recall.
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> I mention VLC and Gwenview because many Linux distributions
> come without those handy tools. Some even fail to have them in their
> repositories but you can go out to the originating sites and get the
> packages in appropriate formats for nearly every distribution.
There are hundreds of Linux distributions, spread over five
package format "families" (plus a few singletons that create
their own package formats). It's a rare piece of software
that covers even the five "root" distributions directly--
most of them just provide source and let the distros sort it
out.
(And yes, I'm just nitpicking, like a typical grumpy
techno-nerd. ;P )
> Even in
> Android you can get a version of VLC.
It exists for Windows too, or used to.
> My tablet though was too slow to decode even the lowest resolution .mkv
> file in a pleasing manner.
Really? Must be a really low-end processor. I've got a
~10-year-old laptop that handles 720p well enough most of
the time. That's in mplayer, though, which has less overhead.
E. Liddell
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