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From: Orchid XP v8
Date: 7 Oct 2011 18:00:36
Message: <4e8f7684$1@news.povray.org>

>>> Audio certainly is an area that's recognised as being problematic.
>>
>> Really? I thought that was Wi-Fi.
>
> Nah, Wi-Fi is pretty easy - either it works or it doesn't.  Either you
> have the firmware necessary or you don't.
>
> Audio is so horribly complex on Linux because there's at least 3
> different systems to use it, and nobody's standardised on one.  OSS.
> Alsa.  PulseAudio.

Ah yes, that's fun.

I especially like the way that installing one GNOME application installs 
the entire GNOME system, including the GNOME sound daemon. And all I 
actually wanted to do was run gedit...

> The standards were all not standardised, so they
> decided to fix the problem by creating ANOTHER STANDARD.
>
> Gah.

Required XKCD quote: http://xkcd.com/927/

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