-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 8/24/10 2:13 PM, Till Maas wrote: > On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 01:15:54PM -0700, Jesse Keating wrote: > >> Because generally whats on the mainboard (or in the laptop) works. If >> it didn't work, the first reaction isn't "Oh I need to go buy a better >> one" it's "why the heck can't linux work with this, is linux still a >> piece of crap?". Replacing the soundcard in a laptop is even more tricky. > > People thinking that "linux is still a piece of crap" are usually not > that active in the FOSS development. And the first lesson I learned when > I started using linux was to buy hardware after checking that it is > compatible with linux. And this is usually followed by everyone I know > personally who is using linux. Do you really buy new hardware without > checking its compatibility with linux first? Video and wifi I check into. Other than that I expect everything else to just work. > And do you use your soundcard in a way that you benefit from the > Pulseaudio features? > I can't really answer that because I don't really know what the features are over what we had previously. I like for my applications to be able to use my soundcard all at the same time, which I had issues with before pulse, but that was on previous hardware as well. - -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature! identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkx0OqIACgkQ4v2HLvE71NWFCQCgwlZ7lgpHkHVU5rggkLokATw8 dAoAoIFC/IE4BFudJCqh+HWtNBN6RnQc =uWJl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
