[Fwd: Archive frozen for preparation of Ubuntu 9.10]

CLIFFORD ILKAY clifford_ilkay-biY6FKoJMRdBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org
Sat Oct 17 00:01:25 UTC 2009


Jamon Camisso wrote:
> Pulseaudio is not a feature, it is a bug. I despise it. It is slow and 
> buggy, and even stutters on quad core machines. That just shouldn't be 
> the case.
> 
> OSS4 is out and is available, I find it works very well on my Debian 
> Squeeze systems (KDE/Gnome) try it out: http://developer.opensound.com

If there is one thing that I can point to and say, "This is why Linux 
can't be successful on the desktop, yet.", it has to be the sorry state 
of multi-media. I'm finding that Pulseaudio is a complete mystery to me. 
Occasionally it works on my Fedora 11 machine. Sometimes it even sounds 
passable. Most of the time, it's choppy, has annoying pops and clicks, 
and often doesn't work with Flash. Then again, Flash itself is a 
mystery. Now when I hit "Play" in Flash, I'll see the progress bar in 
the player filling up but the frames don't advance. When Flash is 
working, if I fullscreen the Flash player, all I will see is a wireframe 
where the Flash player is embedded on the page but I won't see any video 
or hear any audio. Why? No idea and I don't have the time to investigate 
so when I get really exasperated, I just turn 90 degrees, face my 
notebook computer running XP, and just use that.

Back in my early days of running Linux 11 years ago, this sort of thing, 
I expected. Since then, the Linux desktop has gotten much better to the 
point where in the not-too-distant-past, it was a credible alternative 
as a desktop operating system. Now, it seems we have a bunch of 
regressions and I find my machine is much faster at being less usable. :)
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