Re: What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great? (was Re: [linux-audio-dev] Best-performing Linux-friendly MIDI interfaces?)

not for me. We both know how to handle audio subsystems, and I have disabled arts completely. And I'm using the onboard sound for viewing news videos and the USB card for all of my audio work. But what about users who aren't that experienced? They simply expect that audio output works transparently. If a card doesn't support hardware mixing (and most consumer cards don't) they will still have to struggle with the soundsystem except there's one solution. I also dislike desktop sounds, but there are users who don't care or who like it. Well, we both agree that it makes less sense listening to an ardour session while a MUA plays a silly sound when a mail drops in... DMIX will help a lot. But is it really necessary to divide the users in "pro users" and "consumer users"? Theoretically: no. Theoretically there's a solution: JACK needs to be the one and only soundserver for all purposes. BUt we aren't there yet. And I do not want to recall my earlier thread "Common unix audio layer" ;-) . Best regards ce