Ok, everyone here probably knows that XBMC 11.0 just came out and a lot of us have been toying around with it, me included. Before I go on I must say it has some of the prettiest OS desktop environments I've ever set my eyeballs on. However, I feel disappointed that it may not be the OS I was hoping it could be. I've been playing with it on my Lenovo G470 laptop which I intend to use for web browsing, watching videos, scanning potentially dangerous flash drives for viruses with instead of my Windows machine, as well as running some office programs like LibreOffice.
1. I can't seem to be able to copy files from my external hard drive. I created a / partition as well as a /home (and swap) partition as per standard practice, but I can't do any copying from the external drive to /home/movies or any other location. Am I missing something here?
2. I noticed that volume levels on movies (haven't tried music yet) are quite weak. I'm familiar how loud my movies play on my systems and no matter how much I crank up the volume slider in the movie player, it's just too weak.
3. Now, I know XBMC is designed for HTPC use, but it has a program launcher which you can add, so I expect that it can also play ball with other purposes, namely, perhaps an office suite and an antivirus such as Avast!. Any idea how I can do this? Does the .iso come with an office suite such as LibreOffice?
4. Trying to find a back door with which to copy files to my /home partition, I tried exiting XBMC and into the standard Ubuntu desktop, but the system just hangs up with a black screen every time I try to do so. Oh boy.
Any help would be much appreciated. And if XBMC is not for laptop use, any suggestion for a nice looking, graphically slick (read: 3D effects) OS would be appreciated as well. Thanks!