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Verily I say unto thee, that Lawrence D'Oliveiro spake thusly:
> In message <1urg2fh2c8a2g.7xsq1hfc9l9q.dlg@40tude.net>, flatfish+++
> wrote:
>> On Fri, 18 Feb 2011 14:16:27 +1300, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>> In message , flatfish+++
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> You guys can't even settle on a standard package manage, audio
>>>> system etc.
>>>
>>> We still do better than Windows in those regards, don’t we?
>>
>> Not with audio you don't.
>> Windows and Mac have audio down to a science.
>> Linux?
>> Audio is a mess.
>
> At least the APIs haven’t been tossed about like seasick passengers on
> a sea cruise gone wrong. Remember when Vista broke all the third-party
> audio drivers?
Same thing happened with XP. Half of my 9x-era games no longer worked. I
had to use some weird soundcard emulation system, and even that was only
successful with some of them. I remember Blood 2: The Chosen was a real
bitch, in particular.
Then there was the fiasco of trying to get an Audigy 2 ZS Notebook card
working. It worked once, then went silent the next boot. Uninstalling
then reinstalling the drivers didn't help. Updating the drivers made
things /worse/ (BSOD). Cleaning out the junk from the Registry didn't
help much either. The only thing that made it work was a complete
Windows Wipe'N'Reinstall®, but that only lasted so long, then the card
fell silent again. Just as I was about to give up and take the card back
to the shop, I installed Fedora (dual boot), and lo-and-behold it worked
... under Linux. Back to Windows, and ... nada. Back to Linux, it worked
again.
The entirely unsurprising conclusion was: Windows is a steaming pile of
shit. I did like the Wallpaper Acer provided as the Windows desktop
though - a working calender. Pretty cool.
It was the only cool thing about Windows on that laptop though. For a
start it wasn't 64 bit, Linux was. I had zero control of the CPU dynamic
frequency scaling under Windows, Linux had a gnome applet for it, with
lots of option. Windows needed a boatload of slap-on security software,
including antivirus, anti-spyware and a firewall ... Linux needed none.
Windows crashed just by breathing on it, Linux never crashed once. ACPI
worked better under Windows though, until a kernel update fixed the
problem. Oh, and there was a weird thing where none of my DVD ripping
software worked under Windows (disc read errors), and yet DVD::Rip and
others worked fine under Linux.
It made me angry I was forced to pay for that shit, just because I
wanted a laptop. Well Windows is long gone now. I have an older version
of Fedora (11) on it as the only OS, although I'll probably blow that
off in favour of Gentoo soon. What's my chances of getting a refund on
the Windows tax? LOL!
Microsoft should be forced to publicly apologise for inflicting that
crap on an unsuspecting public. Windows should carry a health warning,
or something.
>> Package manager it's a mixed bag.
>>
>> Yes it's convenient to update all at once, but Windows applications
>> don't have the x.00.1.x version of the week
>
> How many Patch Tuesdays have you gone through, matey?
Don't knock it. Playing chicken with Microsoft's "updates" is one of the
few pleasures Windows users get. It rates right up there with
defragging, quarantining viruses, and fixing the registry.
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