Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
> (which I was able to salvage from an audio-CD where I had burned it)

  Btw, this process showed me again why I like Linux so much more than
Windows.

  You see, I had ripped the audio track to a wav file and wanted to convert
to an mp3. But I didn't have LAME installed. No problem. I launched the
"install software" app, waited for about 10 seconds it updated its indices,
then wrote "lame" in the search field, selected it from the list and clicked
"accept". Now I had LAME installed, and I could convert the wav file with
a simple "lame test8.wav test8.mp3".

  Overall, I estimate it took me about 30 seconds from realizing that I don't
have LAME installed to being able to run it (most of the time going into
waiting for the software installation app to update its indices and then
downloading the LAME binary).

  Compare that to the situation where, in Windows, you don't have any software
to create mp3 files and you want to get one.

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                                                          - Warp

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