You can hear it in the valley where live the lame and the blind.

[reddragdiva]

KDE comes with six or seven music players. I've been sticking with AmaroK as it doesn't piss me off as much as the others. Mind you, just getting sound to work sensibly on Leegnux is shitting me big time. Everything seems to want a different combination of ALSA, aRTs, EsounD, OSS, JACK, gstreamer, etc., etc., ad nauseam. UBUNTU IS SUPPOSED TO JUST FUCKING WORK YOU USELESS STREAK OF PISS.

Is there some magical thing I'm not doing, or do I have to wait for three or so more generations of all-'l33t all-inclusive new sound systems designed to utterly supersede the previous ones but failing to quite do so or work with your previous apps before someone finally cracks it?

(I'm not after specific help, it's the fact that anyone would have to ask for specific help that's unacceptable for something that claims it'll have a technophobe-ready distro by April. It's stupid and annoying crap that just doesn't happen on a Mac or even on fucking Windows and that the developer has no business making the end user even have to think about. The sound situation is actually worse than how goddamn weird default KDE apps look in the default GNOME Ubuntu. I'm more interested in the general state of the arse of Linux sound and if a solution is in sight before the heat death of the universe.)

Update: mjg59 points out that, obviously, supported stuff is supported and therefore KDE isn't. BUT IT STILL SUCKS! And until Rosegarden has that little Ubuntu logo next to it ...

(Mind you, given the fucking around Rosegarden requires anyway, I can hardly believe they bothered making a Debian package available.)

Comments

[mjg59.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid that the basic answer is "Use Ubuntu, not Kubuntu". The amount of developer effort invested on the former is much larger, and the main area that that shines is on integration. And, given the current (rapidly improving, but still nasty) Linux sound situation, that integration is very important.

The more awkward answer is "Make sure that arts and esd both use alsa, and make sure that as much as possible doesn't use arts or esd". And don't run anything so ancient that it will only use OSS stuff, or the baby Jesus will rise from the dead again and visit you in your home and cry all night so you don't get ANY SLEEP. AT ALL. FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE.

[reddragdiva]

Damn you and your good sense. BUT GNOME MAKES THE BABY LINUS CRY!

[mjg59.livejournal.com]

I've just received one of these.

[reddragdiva]

"... it is not clearly established whether it is a huge memory footprint or a huge disk footprint."

[grumpy-sysadmin.livejournal.com]

By "rapidly improving," I trust you're referring to Zeno's Paradox?