I'm not banned for some mailing list and some of the recipients are very kind, but their lists are joined by people who maybe should pay attention to this. If you want people to report bugs, than - don't laugh about them and say that they are the only one with that problem and they should search the web before they do stupid bug reports. Be careful, sometimes the user might have more knowledge and you only think you're right. - you say they are right, but the bug isn't caused by your software, package-build, wiki, they should search the web and find out them self where they have to report bugs. Users might be stupid, but they won't report a bug for their office suit to ALSA and reporting a bug that has to do with an audio application, might be reported to ALSA, JACK, the kernel community, because they all have to do with such a bug - allow people to report without getting subscribed I'm suggesting this because I misbehaved, when I asked because of a bug. Now I'm banned for a forum and a mailing list, but they grant me, that I have pointed out something that was unknown. But I wasn't the one who pointed out this bug, the web was full of posts from other people, before I even noticed this bug. When they try to report something and been laughed at etc., they don't go on like I did, they won't be idiots like I'm. They won't be banned. A lot of people change over to windows, a lot of people report bugs and nobody cares about, a lot of people won't spend hours in reporting something, by reading rules how to do this, e.g. I was exhorted to write the German word "das" correctly, because there are rules, that this word sometimes must be written "dass" instead of "das". I often reported bugs to people who than said, they are making music too and that bug didn't exist, a year later it's noticed in a developer list and they have long threads about it and they wonder why nobody reported this before. People don't try to asked, because they have fear to asked in a wrong kind, the wrong questions. If you report a bug you often hear use this distro instead of this distro, if you don't like it, or use Windows instead of Linux, if you don't like it. But you do like a special distro, application etc. ... Things went terrible wrong in the community and it's not a borderline and dyslexic personality like me ... "normal" people have fear to use Linux, to ask the community. If anybody is interested in what I noticed about Linux audio and MIDI, which bugs I have myself etc., I will go on, because I will stay at Linux for nearly everything, but I guess I have to find something else for multimedia. Hints for alternatives to Linux are welcome. Don't worry, I won't write anything again if I'm unwanted. Good luck for multimedia Linux!