Nobody forces you to use Linux. Why are you offending Linux users anyway?
Ubuntu is by far the best distro I've encountered and I choose it over Windows Vista any day. I never used Automatix, never even heard of it before. Using Synaptics or the command line version apt-get or aptitude will do fine enough for me.
Totem Mediaplayer always offers to download and install missing codecs. Never had problems with it. So imo the codes support on Ubuntu is just the fine the way it is.
Ubuntu is by far the best distro I've encountered and I choose it over Windows Vista any day. I never used Automatix, never even heard of it before. Using Synaptics or the command line version apt-get or aptitude will do fine enough for me.
Totem Mediaplayer always offers to download and install missing codecs. Never had problems with it. So imo the codes support on Ubuntu is just the fine the way it is.