[kwlug disc.] best distro for "out of the box" home system?

[Andrew Kohlsmith]

On Wednesday 05 December 2007 08:54:34 Adam Glauser wrote:
> I'm a Kubuntu user as well, and I'm happy with it too.  I wouldn't say
> it works for everything out of the box though - IIRC, I had to jump
> through some hoops to get a full range of multimedia codecs.

That is entirely due to licensing, though.  In order to keep things "clean" 
you must manually add the multiverse repositories to get the non-free codecs 
and also the "possibly illegal" codecs.

-A.