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

[ickle-yuki.livejournal.com]

I've never really come across any problems with Ubuntu + my craptop thingy.

GNOME + XMMS = Just Works

Though I don't much like XMMS tbh, but it works, so I live with it.

Most of the problems with AmaroK probably are due to it likely expecting arts to be running and so on, whereas GNOME will probably be hogging the sound device with esd or similar. Setting AmaroK to use esd *should* sort all problems out.