... improve sound and video configuration in linux...
1) Configuring a multi-monitor setup should be EASY for a novice user, and they should be able to use a system GUI for that purpose, not an ATI or NVIDIA third party GUI, after a long mess with xorg.conf.
2) Sound setup should be as simple as in Windows. If there is a valid sound driver present, the sound should just work for any application. No configuration of complicated sound daemons should be necessary./dev/dsp or/dev/sound should not be allowed to be locked by regular applications.
Presence of usable/working elementary things like the above would make a novice user use linux, not excessive "slow" eye candy of KDE4...
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... improve sound and video configuration in linux...
/dev/dsp or /dev/sound should not be allowed to be locked by regular applications.
Presence of usable/working elementary things like the above would make a novice user use linux, not excessive "slow" eye candy of KDE4...
1) Configuring a multi-monitor setup should be EASY for a novice user, and they should be able to use a system GUI for that purpose, not an ATI or NVIDIA third party GUI, after a long mess with xorg.conf.
2) Sound setup should be as simple as in Windows. If there is a valid sound driver present, the sound should just work for any application. No configuration of complicated sound daemons should be necessary.