Google Hooks Linux Users Up, but Rejects Windows Users
If your reading this, you know what Google Video is. Most geeks would say it’s a video website that allows the downloading of crappy player designed to play a proprietary codec, that is, if they used Windows. I’ve noticed, that If you are running Linux, Google offers there videos in .avi files. I recently looked up “Brian Head Welch” and watched the CNN video. Being a dedicated Linux(Fedora Core) user, I had not a Windows partition wasting any of my precious 55GB. Well, a few day’s later I went to the same video to download it on a friends computer, only to find I couldn’t get an .avi . I then went home, loaded the same video, and checked the drop box for the amusing AVI message, and it was there. So if not being able to play Google Videos ever prevented you from making the switch, feel free to download like there’s no tomorrow.
