Re: [linux-audio-user] A couple of questions

On Sun, 2006-04-02 at 10:22 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On 4/2/06, Lee Revell <rlrevell@email-addr-hidden-job.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, 2006-04-02 at 18:22 +0200, Christoph Eckert wrote:
> <SNIP>
> > > for example, the Gentoo user mailing list is full of questions like "I
> > > did follow the excellent Gentoo ALSA user guide, but I still get no
> > > sound."
> >
> > Well, people who use Gentoo are expected to know what they are doing.
>
> Yeah....but many of us don't! ;-) Can't be expected to know what you
> don't know or know what the implications are of what you don't know,
> or even that you don't know... ;-)
>

    I tend to agree with Lee on this one. Gentoo is designed for those
who want to do things the hard way. Granted, it probably can help
newbies to understand Linux a bit better but it's a tough row to hoe.
Suse or Fedora are probably much easier to deal with. If you're a
newbie and you're really serious about getting sound to work you're
better off with Planet CCRMA or DeMuDi.

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