Honestly, being a casual Linux user, sound card support is not the defining factor holding back Linux adoption.
Actually for me it does, imagine making music or listening to DVD audio with a development driver that makes the hardware sound like it would downsample the audio to 4-bit mono output.
And 24-bit 96Khz playback does not work very well on linux either. Not that my mp3 collection would have that kind of high-quality source data but in the future it just might.
The other 99 percent of audio card manufacturers don't provide GPL'd drivers.
In other words it more legal to download a movie illegally than watching it from a DVD (also illegal). Oh my.http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/26/1357257#
Having a "Linux vs Microsoft" argument for the millionth time might seem like beating a dead, rotting corpse of a horse, but it's a very fun horse to beat:)
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Honestly, being a casual Linux user, sound card support is not the defining factor holding back Linux adoption.
Actually for me it does, imagine making music or listening to DVD audio with a development driver that makes the hardware sound like it would downsample the audio to 4-bit mono output. And 24-bit 96Khz playback does not work very well on linux either. Not that my mp3 collection would have that kind of high-quality source data but in the future it just might. The other 99 percent of audio card manufacturers don't provide GPL'd drivers.
That is what you THINK!
In other words it more legal to download a movie illegally than watching it from a DVD (also illegal). Oh my.http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/26/1357257#
Having a "Linux vs Microsoft" argument for the millionth time might seem like beating a dead, rotting corpse of a horse, but it's a very fun horse to beat :)