Ubuntu is getting better and better.

Here are some notes taken during setup.

1. Remove games
   Open "Synaptic administration", search for "game", and remove all of them.
2. Language support
   Follow Pinyin Joe's instruction to install the language, and then install the input method if you need Chinese input.
3. To change the default language after an account login, edit the account's $HOME/.gnomerc, and add the following lines:
   export LANG=ko_KR.UTF-8
export LC_ALL=ko_KR.UTF-8
   (ko_KR.UTF-8 for Korean, zh_CN.utf8 for simplified Chinese, zh_TW.utf8 for traditional Chinese).

Videos

Some video files I tried to view asks for "windows media audio 9 decoder". To fix this for mplayer or smplayer, do this:

1. Goto website http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/, Download the latest 'all-codecs-pack' from mplayer hq
2. Extract the files to a directory
   tar -xvf all-********.tar.bz2 (replace '*' accordingly from filename This will extract the files into a directory 'all-********/' in the current location
3. Copy all the extracted files to /usr/local/lib/codecs/ (If there is no such directory, create it)
   cp all-********/* /usr/local/lib/codecs/
4. Make sure the files have the required permissions
   chmod 755 /usr/local/lib/codecs/*
5. Some players look in a the directory /usr/lib/win32/ for codecs. So if you don't have that directory create it and copy the files there as well.
   cp /usr/local/lib/codecs/* /usr/lib/win32/, or just create a soft link:
   ln -s /usr/local/lib/codecs /usr/lib/win32

For video files that require "windows media audio 9 decoder", mplayer/smplayer are the only program was able to fix. I could not fix totem or VLC, at least not yet. I think I have all the codecs, gstreamer plugins (pitfdll, ffmpeg etc). There is one thread on this topic which I have not tried yet: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=188974.