On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 09:50:45PM -0400, Darren Landrum wrote: > Well, I decided to run memtest86, and it locked up during the test. I > can only conclude that I have a major hardware issue, and it's getting > worse. At this point, my best guess is the motherboard. > > For the time being, I'm stuck on my little netbook (MSI Wind) until I > can find the money to build out a new system. Oh well, it works. It's > not Linux, though. > > I've stopped caring about the Linux/Windows/Mac debate for now. Macs are > four time more expensive than they should be, Windows has a bad habit > these days of assuming I don't have the rights to use my own digital > media files, and Linux is full of half-finished applications that don't > work very well together. Conclusion: they all suck, just in different ways. > > What's a broke lone-wolf musician to do? > Load linux on your Wind and run Linux audio stuff on there. Huge Ardour sessions or PD patches might not be so happy, but Fluidsynth and samplers will. -ken _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
