On Fri, 2012-02-17 at 06:13 +0200, Quentin Harley wrote: > Nice to see that I am not the only nostalgic one.
Pro-audio on Linux becomes better and better, but the environments become more and more painful. Flashy and unusable DEs, an "experimental" graphics driver that doesn't work for half of the Linux community replacing a stable driver, pulseaudio put the blame on ALSA ... to whom ever you write regarding to the tons of issues, they push you from Billy to Jack. And myths grow, such as "we don't compile the kernel with the HPET module, since it could cause issues" ... if so, people simply shouldn't load the module manually ... "PA is needed by some apps, we just follow upstream, you can use jack-DBUS" ... "blabla..." Maintainers that obviously don't use what they build. Not a new issue, but a growing issue. Manpower could get wasted, if working apps need to be rewritten, because e.g. a GTK version might be dropped etc.. The major problem still is the argument that most users are comfortable with Linux today. Yes, most users are computer nerds, the computer is a toy for them, less people do serious work and nobody cares about all the users who test Linux and than switch back to another OS, because Linux didn't run stable. City administrations in Germany switched from Windows to Linux and now they switch back to Windows. Ignorance about what is possible today: http://lists.linuxaudio.org/pipermail/linux-audio-user/2012-February/083285.html http://lists.linuxaudio.org/pipermail/linux-audio-user/2012-February/083287.html It's unbelievable what I could do with my iPad 2 if I would use a Mac DAW. I hoped to do a jailbreak and run Android on the iPad or to sell it and to get an Android tablet, but there seems to be no interest by the non-audio Linux community to use the advantages of new technology, instead they copy all that flash crap. 2 Cents, Ralf _______________________________________________ 64studio-devel mailing list 64studio-devel@lists.64studio.com http://lists.64studio.com/mailman/listinfo/64studio-devel
