On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 9:08 AM, Kenneth Lynes <kenlynes at usa.net> wrote: > In response to the difficulty of burning disks on linux, I found a version > of > Nerolinux and got a license for using it from Nero. The download was still > available and it works fine so far burning dual layer dvd disks. I have > only > recently obtained a bluray burner and do not know if it will burn those > yet, > but I will try soon. > I used the Nero version of burning software because I was familiar with it. > I agree it is one of the main complaints I have with using linux OS that I > can > do these things easier on windows os. This is not a good thing to show new > users. Most just want to do the usual things on linux they did on windows > but > not have to deal with all the stuff that tended to mess up their normal use > such as the malware etc. > I dont think most of the linux users would mind paying a small fee to use > the > OS if it would help get things like burning bluray disks resolved. No one > wants to do all that work for nothing. Say a $10 fee to use a distro and > get > all the updates and free software compared to the cheapest version of > windows > 7 which is useful at all costing about $100 and virtually no free software > to > use on the OS. > Until something like this happens and users can find an easy painless way > to > migrate to linux it will continue to be hard to convince someone it is in > their best interest to do so. > Ken > Greetings Ken You can save yourself your $10. I just posted a howto on the list for burning bluray discs. Its not straight forward but it works! (If I can get it working most anyone else should be able to make it too!!) Thanks for those with suggestions! Hope you find my response useful. Darald -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20140829/11985af2/attachment.html>