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Even then you have to jump through hoops to get decent playback of non-free formats. This was easy to do in Gentoo but not so much in the strictly free distros.
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With Ubuntu, when it comes to audio playback, it's as easy as adding the medibuntu repository and downloading the "restricted" extras from the usual software channels, such as Synaptic. And making mplayer run all encodes is almost as easy as downloading CCCP (you download the codecs from the mplayer homepage and copy them to a specific folder). Sure, it may be hard for a regular user, but for a slightly more experienced one?