Well, it finally became time to move up to new software as the old browsers and things just could not do all the fancy things so nicely, so I started shopping again. Ubuntu and Kubuntu was always high on my list of ones to try, but I must admit that I simply cannot make peace with sudo. If I need to be root, I want to be root. The main issue for me was, that I could simply not make dual screen work on any of the Distros and then I found Mageia! Since dual screen basically worked out of the box I was immediately prepared to spend some effort to make it work.
So far, I am very happy with the Distro. There most serious issue I found is garbage printing, but other than that it is a great first try. Seems that I will stick with it for now.
Then about the topic of this post: I am unable to make DVD's and MP3's play. I installed every single tainted package I could find, but nothing works. What else can I try? I could always easily get it to work with plf libraries. It is not a serious issue as I use my PC mainly for work, but I do need it often enough and don't want to grab the Window$ laptop then.
