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- HyperDav, on 12/22/2007, -39/+119Sorry but the UI is ugly as hell.
- Cryoniq, on 12/22/2007, -6/+38Might be true, but it really works and structure things way better than Windows MCE etc. I am sure the interface will theme later on much more. The priority so far been to fix the rest of the system and install running good. The UI been enough to not pay attention to in that way. I seen worse UI's for systems.. much worse :P
- poisonborz, on 12/22/2007, -2/+33Freaky woman with accent confirming all of your setup steps... welcome to the bizarro future of the 70s.
- sumguy231, on 12/22/2007, -0/+17The functionality is amazing, but a little polish goes a long way. The UI looks "shoddy" and inconsistent; yet there's no reason it has to be that way. Plenty of Linux apps have great interfaces, far better than their Windows counterparts, despite the stereotype that Linux applications are ugly. This isn't one of them, yet. I'm sure with time they will get around to making it look nicer, since I would find it pretty hard to believe that the developers themselves haven't given the attractiveness factor a thought.
- Jellzilla, on 12/22/2007, -3/+18Normally, functionality is where everything matters when it comes to operation of a program or a system, but I'd expect more from a "Media Center." I don't believe that the grossly flat colors or the obnoxious gradients do well to accentuate a media powerhouse.
- jefuchs, on 12/22/2007, -10/+24Funny. I never gave that a thought. I was too impressed with the functions. Who cares if the UI isn't futuristic enough.
- veloscaper, on 12/22/2007, -0/+14I'd hit it!
- Cryoniq, on 12/22/2007, -1/+14I really know what you mean. LinuxMCE really had a major overhaul. I had the same story as you going on but for 1-2 weeks. I then tried it since they overhauled it and got updates going and bug/solve routines and it worked like a charm.
They should however change the girl in the video in it. No offense but it was hard to hear what she said and gave it a really boring aura over it all. - superspud, on 12/22/2007, -2/+14Why didn't they get the guy who did the voice-over in the video to do to the tutorial guide, instead of the woman who sounds as though she is from the eastern-bloc?
- cyril0, on 12/22/2007, -3/+14I bought the remote control from this company, and it was the worse online buying experience ever. They billed my credit card twice didn't ship it to me for 2 months and when it finally did arrive Purolator just left a huge box on the steps of my downtown apartment building. Luckily a neighbor saw it and picked it up before it got stolen. When I opeened it I found out it wasn't bluetooth which was how it was advertised on the site at the time (since changed) and it just plained sucked. It took forever to return it, I even had to involve my credit card company.
Do yourselves a favor and keep clear of this hardware. - alexfreedman, on 12/22/2007, -0/+11Does anyone remember a video that was posted here a while ago comparing Linux MCE with Windows MCE? It featured a douchebag speaking in a Comic Book Guy way. It was extremely biased, but hilarious because of his criticisms.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=QcNwnANrCpw - Part 1
http://youtube.com/watch?v=tC-YwwQ1Pkk - Part 2 - andycr512, on 12/22/2007, -0/+10"A masochist's nightmare"
So it's a pleasure? - trylleklovn, on 12/22/2007, -1/+10Because Linux is developed in Sovjet Russia, duh!
- artanis, on 12/22/2007, -3/+11Maybe all that rap music was preventing you from thinking clearly.
- aroedl, on 12/22/2007, -0/+8I was a developer of VDR for a couple of years and I never had a look at LinuxMCE, but I have to say that this is really impressive!
- byrdgang, on 12/22/2007, -0/+7Which remote are you talking about, and are you saying it came from LinuxMCE? You'd have to point out that there is no relationship between LinuxMCE and the company you had difficulty with.
- Deived, on 12/22/2007, -3/+10I just got my wife a laptop for her bday so the desktop is just sitting there. I plan on setting it up as some sort of media player. It looks like LMCE might be the way to go.
- TomP, on 12/22/2007, -1/+8I am watching you, get out of my house!
- Darcy, on 12/22/2007, -4/+11It might be OK in a few years with a new UI, because at the moment it's the ugliest thing I've ever seen (and I've seen a lot of ugly things).
- cak3, on 12/22/2007, -6/+13if only i had a spare pc to play with, looks great
- celkin, on 12/22/2007, -1/+8Actually, if you go to the Linux MCE site, you'll find that you can change the UI so it isn't so ugly.
- TieDNKnotZ, on 12/22/2007, -2/+8If your Media Center's primary role is recording TV and things like Home Automation then this could be a viable option. If you just want to be able to access your media, including HD content, be sure to keep following XBMC for Linux!!!!!! http://www.xboxmediacenter.com/forum/forumdisplay. ...
It's getting better everyday - antych, on 12/22/2007, -3/+9It's more than impressive
- MikeCerm, on 12/22/2007, -1/+7It's not that I care tremendously what the UI looks like, but really simple things are not even done right in the UI. They'll have a box, with text in it, and the text will run over the side of the box. Sure, the fonts are ugly, and the color scheme is horrible, but if you're going to create a box for text, you should probably keep the text IN the box. I'm not expecting perfection here, but it's like they didn't even try at all.
If Linux projects like this have one problem, it's that they think ONLY of functionality. For example, the last thing that the Compiz people did was write a control applet. So, they had all this functionality, and it is quite impressive, but there wasn't really a way for normal people to switch it on and configure it. That was actually a bit more understandable than LinuxMCE, because the whole point of a media center is to give the user access to their media. If there's a million features, and the user can't figure out how to use them (and is totally turned off when they try), then you've got things backwards. - PaulJCG, on 12/22/2007, -0/+6I thought the "there has been a security breach" message was quite funny - enough to scare off a burglar?
- xqb4dpx, on 12/22/2007, -1/+6this is so ridiculous, the system controls everything in your house, i would love to have the lights come on when someone is in the room that would be sick ... or have the music follow me ... or play throughout my house ... or speak to my burglar while he's robbing my house... this is ***** badass (even if the UI sucks for now)
- bumcheekcity, on 12/22/2007, -1/+6That video is the most pathetically biased piece of ***** I've seen, it's funny.
- joshman5k, on 12/22/2007, -0/+5Oh don't get me started on that video. When I saw somebody posted a linux MCE video I was hoping it wouldn't be that one.
- Cryoniq, on 12/22/2007, -1/+5I been hanging on to the project lately and it developed past year quite nice. Been some road for sure but it now work great. I would however choose Nvidia card for sure as GFX card. I ran it on an old 1 ghz with 512 MB RAM, with a GeForce 6200 power edition card and it was flowing good.
- dualityim, on 12/22/2007, -1/+5A media center is not just a control center for all your home automation functionality. It is also an interface between the user and all that functionality. Therefore any media center is only as good as its UI. Hopefully though this product gets more polish as development carries on. It's a shame to see all that functionality hiding behind that hideous UI.
- andyakadum, on 12/22/2007, -0/+4It will be when its done, ATM I'd say its on the right track, but not quite there yet.
- shodanx, on 12/22/2007, -1/+4obviously you've been spoiled by xmbc
I can't blame you - computershack, on 12/22/2007, -2/+5I'm sorry but it's not a patch on Windows MCE and there's even far better Media Center centric Linux distros than this.
- Ub3rg33k, on 12/23/2007, -0/+3You're digging me down because my real life experience with LinuxMCE refutes what you want to believe?
- inactive, on 12/23/2007, -0/+3Sounds great and all, but the video is really an ad for a company that sells turn key kits (hint.. the remote is one of the products). It would of been nice to be up front about that at the start of the video.
Since I've got an old Dell P4 ?? PC sitting behind me, may as well ***** around with LinuxMCE and see how it performs. - sumguy231, on 12/22/2007, -0/+3Because accents are sexy, duh.
- bumcheekcity, on 12/22/2007, -6/+8My Media Centre is a normal PC running Windows XP. In order to watch TV, I use my Hauppage TV Card (w/Integrated Freeview Tuner), and I have a remote that I can use in the normal fashion. I have movies stored on my PC, and if I want to watch them, I double-click, and it opens in Windows Media Player (of course, any media player would work), and then I put it into full-screen mode and watch the film.
A bluetooth mouse sorts out control across the room, and the remote controls the TV. It's a 1400+ AMD processor with 256MB of RAM, and it's the best TV I've ever had. It requires absolutely no knowledge about computers, I just added a 500GB Hard Drive to store lots of videos without needing to bother with inserting DVDs.
Zero technical knowledge, it's just a totally 100% normal PC with a TV card and a remote. Am thinking of installing LMCE though. I'll give it a try, it can't hurt. - mic159, on 12/23/2007, -0/+2dont forget to backup EVERYTHING. it wipes the entire drive (all partitions) when it installs.
- koick, on 12/23/2007, -0/+2They've been hooked up via a serial connection out of the USB port of the thin client computer.
- pumafi, on 12/22/2007, -1/+3Mirrors to download:
http://wiki.linuxmce.com/index.php/Mirrors - Vektuz, on 12/23/2007, -0/+2Its skinnable. And theres a whole bunch of skins.
- Archon810, on 12/22/2007, -0/+2AhronZombi, stop "waisting" our time trying to be "kool" with your "bugy" reviews. Your "experiance" really shows, you must be a pro and not at all a snotty kid.
- rexbron, on 12/22/2007, -0/+2Make you a sandwitch
- emehrkay, on 12/22/2007, -0/+2sudo - make chripo125 a sandwich
- byrdgang, on 12/22/2007, -0/+2You will obviously need to know something about computers. You'd have to know how TV cards work, how to get them to work, what a bluetooth mouse is, and so on. If you don't know these things, you'll keep asking yourself where to start.
- inactive, on 12/22/2007, -2/+4I have to agree, the Linux MCE is powerful as hell and amazingly full of features. But it's not good looking enough that an average person is going to put up with the bad UI because to the average person, style is more important than substance. My mom isn't going to care about half the stuff on there because it doesn't look very nice, and unfortunately that's all that's holding Linux from becoming more mainstream. Here's hoping somebody with some design knowledge gets their hands on the look and feel, cause a soon as this looks a little less 1995, I'm there.
- Brain1, on 12/22/2007, -1/+2Pay $99.00 one time and get Beyond TV....Its an easy, fast, DVR...and you always have a reliable TV Guide thats integrated with your TV Display..
- penguincentral, on 01/03/2008, -0/+1The video is amazing. I'd look into this if i were you.
- mhonorelsu, on 12/22/2007, -0/+1They use this as a base to sell this overpriced gyro remote and other stuff that only seems useful with this software. I tried out Linux MCE on two occasions and you need alot more than the software to get it working like in the demo.
- fradro, on 12/23/2007, -1/+2I agree, they need to learn a lesson form the latest MCE, which I use and love (Vista Ultimate)
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