Re: Re (5): names for sound devices
peasthope@shaw.ca writes:
> From: lee <lee@yun.yagibdah.de>
>> Alsa sucks. It's ridiculously difficult and more or less impossible to
>> configure and to figure out why things don't work.
>
> Compared to Shorewall for example, which is superbly documented
> and works as the documents describe.
On the other hand, alsa seems to work most of the time out of the box.
That is an achievement.
> Sorry to say that the problems with sound alone will deter any casual
> user from considering Debian as an alternative to Windows.
Maybe, if they have them. Perhaps being presented with choices and
package management is a greater obstacle. Add to that non-working
things and then ask why anyone would use it.
> P.s., With alsa, was this simple procedure forgotten?
> (1) Write the specifications and documentation.
> (2) Write the software.
> (3) Make sure the implementation is consistent with documents from (1).
Debian has forgotten it with brokenarch. I wonder what will happen when
people find out that there's no working 32bit support in the next
release.
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Debian testing iad96 brokenarch
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