> 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
Received on Sat Sep 23 00:15:17 2006
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