Mer/Documentation/First Steps

Here are some ideas to help you get some useful things running on Mer. They can all be installed via apt-get install

Sound

Sound currently (0.12) only works with alsa, not pulseaudio so:

 apt-get install alsa-base

gnome-alsamixer works as a volume control

For music playback try xfmedia with xine-backend it uses the least cpu and supports playlists.

dragonplayer, plays videos.

Of course, midori is already present but you may want to try arora, another browser.

For IRC try Xchat