> i think its easier than ever. on windows it was alwasy a constant dance of > deleting registry entries from old versions of plugins, dealing with the > annoyance of clogging up USB ports with dongles or trackign down slightly > ness annoying cracks just so you could use software you paid for without > broken challenge/response schemes that required internet connections and said > dongle ports.. I wasn't comparing to windows, I was comparing to gentoo 2004 or 2005 or the old stable agnulas. > have you tried the proaudio overlay? just about every audio app ever written > for linux is an emerge away. it couldnt get much easier.. > > just emerge layman && layman -a pro-audio or similar to get it installed.. If you are referring to Gentoo, the 2006.1 installer won't even work with my setup. I could revert to an old one, but if the current state of gentoo is indicative of how it is being managed, than I don't think that bodes well for the future. Getting audio apps installed is no problem, it's getting all the drivers and base components playing fairly together that is bad. IE a fresh install of Ubuntu won't even aplay, with one of the most popular prosumer audio cards out there! That is terrible. So, any stories of distros that *are* working properly? I don't mind a tough intall if it will work in the end. Slackware? Arch? Something I'm missing? Someway to install the big ones with no audio in there at all so I can start from scratch? ( It seems like you can't rip alsa out of ubunut without killing the entire gnome desktop, which is totally idiotic. ) Iain
