I would add that Windows 10 (it pains me to say) is much better than its predecessors. This means that Linux will have a harder time getting people's attention. There are still great reasons to use Linux, but nagging problems that do not need to be problems do not help.
Thanks, Loyal. You will be glad to know that I almost got to install Mint, but am waiting for 15.10 to decide whether I should bother. I still want KDE and the latest and the greatest kernel etc.
Roy
On Saturday, September 19, 2015 12:49 PM, "Loyal Barber loyal_barber@yahoo.com [LINUX_Newbies]" <LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
On 9/18/2015 10:09 PM, Linux Canuck linuxcanuck@yahoo.ca [LINUX_Newbies] wrote:
<snip><snip>The problem for users is that there are no global controls. You can change the settings in the Mixer, but then still get no sound until you open VLC or Chrome or another application and change its internal controls. This is not good for most people who might give up after not getting it to work globally. Also changing settings does not work across all desktops which is strange since they all use Pulse Audio.
Anyway, thanks for encouraging me to stick with it.
Roy
I so want to echo what Roy said above. Linux will never be taken seriously until we get this sort of thing sorted out. While Windoze can be this way (anyone ever had to get Skype audio to work?) it is usually one central place that you work on sound. Linux, it seems we are not only dependent on the particular distro and how it works with the underlying sound server, but also every application was written as if in a vacuum. Sound settings for this one have to be tweaked this way to get them to work with this hardware. Then the next app just plain does not work with that hardware. Linux means innovation but at the cost of some chaos. However, it is now long past the time that chaos should still rule in sound, yet here we are.
Loyal
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