Re: ANOTHER REASON WHY LINUX SUCKS.

From: Jafar As-Sadiq Calley (nooo_at_nospam.com)
Date: 09/13/05


Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 16:22:01 +0200

On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 21:32:48 -0700, Sally Vadi wrote:

> Amarok Has ANYONE been able to make this POS work?

Yes and quite well on Gentoo, Debian and Fedora machines.

> And the interface?
> YUK
> What kind of moron designed the interface?

It's open source. Get involved and change it yourself if you think you can
do better.

> What the hell is Gstreamer?
> Yet ANOTHER Linux sound driver?

"GStreamer is a streaming-media framework, based on graphs of filters which
operate on media data. Applications using this library can do anything
from real-time sound processing to playing videos, and just about anything
else media-related."
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gstreamer/

> Why so many Linux sound drivers?

Choice.

> Personally I would settle for ONE SOUND DRIVER that actually worked and
> allowed me to specify what soundcard is associated with what program, I
> have 3 cards.

My choice for such a task is Alsa. It happily supports the 3 soundcards I
have in my PC and 2 others which are currently orphaned without PC's.

> I would also like sharing of soundcards, IOW being able to have a
> soundcard provide output to more than one program at a time.

I thought that was standard. Maybe you just have a crap soundcard.

> Windows does all this easily, and by default with ONE soundsystem.

Windows has more than one soundsystem.

> Why can't Linux?

Because you are a stupid troll?

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