> I think what it comes down to is, like you said, an experience, and > experience is subjective. As Joeb said, it's the same Linux. I completely agree on that and as I said I just talk out of practice. I still consider myself a newbie and I don't know why things here or there work better, what I see is that they do.
> My install of Mandrake 9.1 has never crashed once, but then again I > don't use what I personally see as garbage, KDE, again, personal > subjective experience, but there you go. No app has "crashed" *ever* > except for verrrrrry beta stuff like the just released beta of MOHAA. > Some stuff has locked up on me before, but I just kill it and restart > it, and again, that's very beta or even alpha code I'm playing with. Lucky you... I don't think my problem is KDE because I used it on Mandrake and I use it on Slackware and the same packages, save versions, have different behaviors -> some on Mandrake crash, on Slack they don't. At least that is on both the computers I made tries on > Now, about the sound issue...I would be very interested to know how > Slackware handles sound differently than Mandrake or any other distro, > or how you are able to make the sound work better with "lower level" > fiddling in Slackware. Tell me which configurations files I need to check and I will tell you. On Mandrake I've never been able to record any file from line-in or microphone, on both the computers I had and on my sister's computer where Mandrake is still on. On Slack it works without needing to change anything, on Mandrake I made many tries and asked to many mailinglists and I never got out of the tries with the problem solved. The exit sound of KDE is cut both in Mandrake and on Slack but while with Slack I could solve the problem giving a "play filename.wav" command at shutdown, when I tried it on Mandrake what I got was just noise. With Xine on Mandrake was impossible to speed the playback for more than a few seconds without getting the player crashed while on Slack I never had such problems. >Most of what you just pointed out was either nothing to do with Mandrake >but with KDE, or so unspecific as to not be of much value. In my opinion KDE is everything but garbage and what I pointed out is unspecific but as I said in my email I have no idea about why everything works on Slack and not everything works that fine on Mandrake, I just know it does and that in my opinion is a good enough reason to use Slack. Beppe
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