You've started it...
You've started it...
Posted Jan 29, 2012 22:05 UTC (Sun) by sbergman27 (guest, #10767)In reply to: You've started it... by khim
Parent article: The case for the /usr merge
Which looks like a disaster if you'll not compare it with similar search
alsa "no sound"
which returns over 50 millions results.
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44 million. But since PA depends upon the underlying sound system, if one's chances of getting sound working in Linux without PA are bad, their chances of getting it working with PA are far worse.
PA is the first time in the history of Linux that after the actual sound driver is working, the user still faces a major and long-standing hurdle in getting the sound server working. Sometimes I think desktop Linux has a deathwish. No, that's not right. At this point, in 2012, it's pretty certain that Desktop Linux has always had a deathwish. We never had a chance. We only kill the things we love.
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