I'm starting to wonder if anything about Linux is going to be easy. But I remain undaunted in my efforts to use Ubuntu 7.10, or Gutsy Gibbon, to accomplish the same computing tasks I use Windows for. Now that I've got Flash and Quicktime working in Ubuntu, I feel like I'm nearly there.

I say "nearly" because I'm still running into some glitches, this week relating to getting the full suite of updates available for Gutsy installed. The update failure is a minor inconvenience compared to the crashes I experienced last week whenever I tried to run a Flash or Quicktime video.

After poking around the Linux forums I found out that Ubuntu installs a la carte: Only the truly free supporting software is included in the default installation, which excludes proprietary media players such as Adobe's Flash and Apple's Quicktime.

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