lanas wrote: > Le Lundi, 23 février 2009 17:25:45 +0100, > mikk <michiel33@xxxxxxxxx> a écrit : > > >> Who can explain to me why it seems to be so hard to get a stable >> audio and video environment in Linux (not requiring recompilations >> and intricate tweaks) while this problem seems to have been solved >> quite satisfactorily in Windows? What is the fundamental reason for >> this? >> > > For me it's simple: everything worked fine and then 'they' came up with > Pulse Audio. > > I just don't see this problem for consumer multimedia. I have been using pulse audio over the past year and I haven't had any issues with it other than it took a couple of hours to get used to the two interfaces. I just installed a brand new laptop with Fedora 10 and sound worked out of the box. The video camera worked out of the box. I can see flash natively with the 64 bit adobe plugin. I was able to quickly get access to the non-free repo and now have access to all the multimedia tools I need to get up and running. Most audio and video I stream via flash these days anyway. I rarely download but if I do I only need vlc or amarok to play the data. Granted I haven't tried to get the rt kernel running yet or any of the professional tools installed on this setup but for a stock standard install Fedora 10 has everything correct afaict. I had to do a similar install recently on a desktop and I had everything I needed up and running within a week thanks to yum and svn. I don't foresee this being any more difficult on my new notebook. I do agree with you that some of the things that have been removed over the past couple of years to make the desktop more like a m$ windows are a step backwards. I am hoping that the trend will be slowly reversed but I doubt it. The more people buying netbooks with ubuntu means the more simplified/automated the gnome and kde desktops are going to become. That's fine for non technical users as we power users can easily get our favorite desktop running with minimal effort. > Also, while at it: > > kpdf worked fine and then 'they' got rid of it and replaced it with > some Okular in the newest KDE 4.x. > > The Konqueror web browser had nice icons to zoom in/out of pages > and then 'they' removed them totally. > > You could drag and drop files from a file manager to a console window > and then 'they' removed that functionality in KDE 4.x. > > I could assign Alt-1. Alt-2, etc... to switch desktops and then they > made that really hard to assign in KDE 4.x (still haven't found it) > > OK, what else... hmmm... can't find anything else. For the moment :-) > > I don't know if this is progress, but sometimes I doubt it. > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user > -- Patrick Shirkey Boost Hardware Ltd. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
