25 Feb
2009
25 Feb
'09
11:19 p.m.
lanas wrote:
Le Lundi, 23 février 2009 17:25:45 +0100,
mikk <michiel33(a)gmail.com> a écrit :
I just don't see this problem for consumer multimedia.
I have been using pulse audio over the past year and I haven't had any
issues with it other than it took a couple of hours to get used to the
two interfaces. I just installed a brand new laptop with Fedora 10 and
sound worked out of the box. The video camera worked out of the box. I
can see flash natively with the 64 bit adobe plugin. I was able to
quickly get access to the non-free repo and now have access to all the
multimedia tools I need to get up and running. Most audio and video I
stream via flash these days anyway. I rarely download but if I do I only
need vlc or amarok to play the data.
Granted I haven't tried to get the rt kernel running yet or any of the
professional tools installed on this setup but for a stock standard
install Fedora 10 has everything correct afaict. I had to do a similar
install recently on a desktop and I had everything I needed up and
running within a week thanks to yum and svn. I don't foresee this being
any more difficult on my new notebook.
I do agree with you that some of the things that have been removed over
the past couple of years to make the desktop more like a m$ windows are
a step backwards. I am hoping that the trend will be slowly reversed but
I doubt it. The more people buying netbooks with ubuntu means the more
simplified/automated the gnome and kde desktops are going to become.
That's fine for non technical users as we power users can easily get our
favorite desktop running with minimal effort.
Who can explain to me why it seems to be so hard
to get a stable
audio and video environment in Linux (not requiring recompilations
and intricate tweaks) while this problem seems to have been solved
quite satisfactorily in Windows? What is the fundamental reason for
this?
For me it's simple: everything worked fine and then 'they' came up with
Pulse Audio.
Also, while at it:
kpdf worked fine and then 'they' got rid of it and replaced it with
some Okular in the newest KDE 4.x.
The Konqueror web browser had nice icons to zoom in/out of pages
and then 'they' removed them totally.
You could drag and drop files from a file manager to a console window
and then 'they' removed that functionality in KDE 4.x.
I could assign Alt-1. Alt-2, etc... to switch desktops and then they
made that really hard to assign in KDE 4.x (still haven't found it)
OK, what else... hmmm... can't find anything else. For the moment :-)
I don't know if this is progress, but sometimes I doubt it.
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