Re: ANOTHER REASON WHY LINUX SUCKS.

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Date: 18 Sep 2005 17:40:30 GMT

In comp.os.linux.hardware Sally Vadi <sally_vadi@yahoo.com> wrote:

| Juk with 20k mp3's. Try typing something into the search bar and wait,
| and wait and wait and wait for the cursor to catch up. This is on a P4
| 3.6ghz machine.

My 400 MHz P2 has no problems.

| Amarok Has ANYONE been able to make this POS work?
| It crashes all the time and seems to want to scan my collection of mp3
| files every time I start it up.

"It" what? The file manager program, perhaps?

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

Design your own. Several people have done that already. This is one
of the big advantages of Linux over Windows ... you can change it to
your own liking. Lots of people do. I do, too.

| Yet ANOTHER Linux sound driver?
| Why so many Linux sound drivers?

You'll have to raise that issue with each and every sound card
manufacturer that chose to make the hardware interface different than
others.

| 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.

Different brands of sound cards, and in most cases even different
models by the same brand, work differently in ways that the driver for
one won't function with another. Mismatching drivers can have results
that vary from missing functionality, to incorrect output, to freezing
up the hardware bus entirely.

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

Doable. The quick hack is a sound server program that reads the
captured sound and passes it along to connections made by other
programs. Of course it would be nice if the drivers allowed multiple
open.

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

No it doesn't. Windows has separate drivers for every type of sound
card. Then it all goes through a common sound interface system. Linux
is just like that. There are drivers for each supported sound card,
and a common sound system (e.g. programs open and read/write a specific
sound device like /dev/dsp).

| Why can't Linux?

It can. It just needs to be packaged right. Buy a computer from a
seller than will install Linux for you, and make sure you have chosen
one that knows what they are doing. Or else do it yourself if you know
how (an option you don't have with Windows).

| Why?
|
| Because Linux sucks.

The real problem is that too many sound card manufacturers and too many
computer retailers refuse to provide Linux support. If they did
provide it, you would not be having problems with products they sell to
you when running Linux.

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