Re: [linux-audio-user] what about creating a wiki website to submit "soundcard experiences"

Last Saturday 27 November 2004 17:10, David Stephens was like: Yes, this would be good. Several people have and are still trying to achieve this. My recent experiences with A/DeMuDi-1.2.0 have changed this. I'm seeing people install Windows XP and then have to get in an 'expert' to sort out all the virus/spyware/popup stuff and then get someone in to clean up the registry for them. And then they have to get someone in to sort out all the new trojans. Then they give up. My experience suggests that people would rather pay an 'expert' to get their system to do something it didn't do before, than to stop it doing something they didn't want in the first place. Once set up and configured, I'm finding previously uninterested people are being attracted to use the Debian system I've set up, including total non-computer-literates, for whom it makes absolutely no odds what the underlying system is. I find they're attracted by the look & feel, the screensavers, the fact that it so obviously doesn't fall over, once configured, it thankfully stays configured and the vast amount of free & licensed software available. So, yes, I'm finding that the best form of advocacy involves me setting up & configuring systems for my interested friends. They seem to take it as read that computers require this level of support, what makes the difference is that after a few hours of fiddling they have some more new software, which works, rather than more problems that no-one seems to know how to fix. Distros like DeMuDi and PlanetCCRMA as well as providing (nearly) all the music software you could ever want are also leading GNU/Linux out of the ghetto in terms of useability. I'm finding it rather exciting! cheers tim hall http://glastonburymusic.org.uk