I din't said that all rpm based distros are a bad thing but debian based distros i've tried seem to run faster than their RPM based cousins ( Not much difference on my hand-built PC, but a serious one on my older eMachines Celeron 900MHz and my mom's Dell P3 500MHz ), I also liked Ubuntu because it relies less in the cmd than most distros I've tried before especially after installing smeg from Realist Anew (There's also a third party version for Fedora)

apt-get is faster than yum!!

I've been useing Red Hat/Fedora since RH6 and I recently tryed Ubuntu and I like the idea that once installed I can download a Kernel just for my AMD 64 without the others 64 bits systems stuff and apt-get/Synaptic it's great.

I think I'm going to stick with Ubuntu for my personal system, I still use Fedora for the servers at work, Fedora is still better Server out of the box.

I'm a raw newbie so forgive me if i'm being stupid.

I tried the apt-get command as you lsted and got:-

root@ubuntu:/home/eric # apt-get install libdvdcss
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Package libdvdcss is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package libdvdcss has no installation candidate
root@ubuntu:/home/eric #

I'm using Ubuntu 5.04 for the AMD64.

Please help as i can't seem to play my DVDs or windows multimedia v9

try an apt-cache search [packagename] to see if your package is available in the repos you specified in your /apt/sources.list.

If not, go to the Ubuntu Starter Guide to add some repos. You could also read the dvd-section in the same guide.

Edit: didn't read that you use the 64bit version....dunno if it works the same.

In fact Fedora seems to be a waste of time because many programs are incompatible with Fedora. On the other hand with Ubuntu there is less hassle, More things work and the os is smoother. There are mainly too many incomparability's with Fedora 7.