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Gnome and Xfce share the Gtk+ toolkit, so there's some cross-platform compatibility.
MPlayer is a universal media player; there are even versions available for Windows. Gnome-Mplayer is simply a gui frontend for it.
Ubuntu is a very popular noob distro. It's very slick and user friendly, but when I tried it I found that it carried over a lot of Debian's quirks (which is natural, really). I'm not a huge fan of Debian and, consequently, was not a huge fan of Ubuntu. There are aspects of it I like; Synaptic in particular is quite possibly the most robust package manager in existence. But at the end of the day, I like my Mandriva better.
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I wake up in the morning more tired than before I slept
I get through cryin' and I'm sadder than before I wept
I get through thinkin' now, and the thoughts have left my head
I get through speakin' and I can't remember, not a word that I said
- Ben Harper, Show Me A Little Shame
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