Jonathan Stowe wrote:
Oh yes Flash based media players are another source of hate. Yesterday I opened an "audacity" (open source multitrack audio editor) project and it claimed that it couldn't open the playback device, checking the configuration LO AND BEHOLD there were no audio devices available in the drop down. To cut a long tale involving strace and fuser short it appeared that the flash player (or the 32->64bit shim thing that is necessary because no twat feels it necessary to provide a 64bit flash plugin) had gone titsup locking the audio device somehow AND HADN'T GONE AWAY WHEN I CLOSED FIREFOX. WHY DO I USE THIS GODDAM HIPPY OPERATING SYSTEM!
Audio is the biggest source of hate in Linux as a desktop OS, at least IMAO. There are other problems but the pile of different and conflicting ways of talking to audio devices seriously buggers up what is otherwise becoming a vaguely-usable platform.
Matt (and this from someone who has hated Linux desktops for years.)
