22 Sep
2006
22 Sep
'06
4:40 p.m.
i think its easier than ever. on windows it was alwasy
a constant dance of
deleting registry entries from old versions of plugins, dealing with the
annoyance of clogging up USB ports with dongles or trackign down slightly
ness annoying cracks just so you could use software you paid for without
broken challenge/response schemes that required internet connections and said
dongle ports..
I wasn't comparing to windows, I was comparing to gentoo 2004 or 2005 or the old
stable agnulas.
have you tried the proaudio overlay? just about every
audio app ever written
for linux is an emerge away. it couldnt get much easier..
just emerge layman && layman -a pro-audio or similar to get it installed..
If you are referring to Gentoo, the 2006.1 installer won't even work with my
setup. I could revert to an old one, but if the current state of gentoo is
indicative of how it is being managed, than I don't think that bodes well for
the future. Getting audio apps installed is no problem, it's getting all the
drivers and base components playing fairly together that is bad. IE a fresh
install of Ubuntu won't even aplay, with one of the most popular prosumer audio
cards out there! That is terrible.
So, any stories of distros that *are* working properly? I don't mind a tough
intall if it will work in the end. Slackware? Arch? Something I'm missing?
Someway to install the big ones with no audio in there at all so I can start
from scratch? ( It seems like you can't rip alsa out of ubunut without killing
the entire gnome desktop, which is totally idiotic. )
Iain