assasin said:
but in os X u can play fullscreen videos with Quicktime

.now i've to install 3rd party apps.
This is one drawback on Mac OS X. Apple made the incredibly stupid decision of making you buy the Pro version to make QuickTime do full screen. Idiots!
However, there are two ways around this particular problem:
1. Play your videos in iTunes and you can watch the full screen.
2. Put them in the 'Movies' folder and watch them using Front Row. You'll get full screen.
assasin said:
moreover OS X doesnt quite like my hardware (especially the Jmicron SATA/PATA controller) so it just wont boot off the dvd.
LOL! And that is the fault of Mac OS X? It is crap because you are using it illegally on hardware that it does not support? WOW, quite the logic you have here! Guess what, Vista won't run on my machine that has 256 MB of RAM. Holy cow! Vista is crap.
Please talk some sense!
assasin said:
i cant play DVDs in quicktime.
Which is hardly a surprise because Mac OS X comes with a dedicated software for playing DVDs and it is quite clearly named DVD Player. I don't know how they could have made it more obvious how you are supposed to play DVDs in Mac OS X.
Basically, you didn't even use the operating system long enough to see all the default applications it ships with and declared that it "suxxx BIG TIME" without any rhyme or reason whatsoever. Good.
Do me a favour, please uninstall it if you haven't done so yet and never try venturing near it again. Thanks for the audience!