From: Dafydd C. <dt...@gm...> - 2009-03-01 07:32:43
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D. Michael McIntyre wrote: > There's no shame in any misunderstanding with this stuff. I've been directly > and actively involved in trying to make it all easier for years, and the > effort hasn't been especially successful. Linux audio is still a horrible, > mind-bending nightmare. > > It's one of the reasons Guillaume finally got disgusted and defected to OS-X. > I'm not sure I'd follow him if I had the cash, but I definitely don't have > the cash, so I paddle my little canoe through the turbulent seas with the > rest of you poor souls, and hope for the day when Linux audio becomes more > idiot proof. > > Amen to that. Being a programmer and a musician, I see a bit of a chasm between the two. The default Fedora 10 install has a beta version of Audacity, which unceremoniously crashed when I had recorded a long track. Fortunately, it was just a mixdown, but it was a waste of 2 hours nevertheless. The immediate lesson is that art and music software should never be beta by default (the artistic aspect is frustrating enough). Sorry, I just felt I needed to rant a little. Go about your business :-P -Dafydd |