Re: [LAU] [LAD] So what do you think sucks about Linux audio ?

On 02/05/2013 10:58 AM, Rui Nuno Capela wrote: Both, but you're not your typical user. You've been developing your excellent "dogfood" for years to match your taste preferences - which may or may not really align with those of a non-developer. Or at least with a regular user who hasn't had your dogfood before and doesn't have your extensive experience with it to get them through the learning process. Or a regular user who's coming from a comparable program that simply does things differently. Self-selection is a fundamental thing in open source. It's a fundamental strength, and a fundamental weakness. It's a strength in that motivated, passionate developers and users form a community around a product, guiding its development and maintaining everyone's motivation. Even helping fund things! It's a fundamental weakness in that developers and users who don't like the way a product does things or is being developed, self-select OUT by choosing another product. They may even be subtly or not so subtly encouraged to leave: "You don't like the way the program does things? Then why don't you just go away and use something else?". So - over time - a product's community comes to consist of people who like the product, like how it works, think that's the way things should work, complain when someone posts an idea that would change how things are done, etc. (BTW, I'm one of that kind of community member.) So whatever quirks the product began with are amplified, even become set in stone, are angrily defended by community members when "outsiders" say it makes no sense to do something in a way that may be completely, inscrutably and seemingly-irrationally different from the way every other similar program (or even common usability standard) does it. (Yes, JPilot - just why DID you decide to use the common UI standard ctrl-z UNDO key to bring up the dialog box for entering the user's Palm OS password???? Is that really more useful than an UNDO function? I've been using JPilot for ages, have never used a password on my Palm Pilot, and I still hit ctrl-z expecting it to be UNDO!) No offense intended, maybe I'm just getting old and crotchety. Newer ain't always better - but the old ways aren't always best, either. -- David gnome(a)hawaii.rr.com authenticity, honesty, community http://clanjones.org/david/ http://dancing-treefrog.deviantart.com/