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On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 10:41 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Folk like Canek have complex setups that would drive me insane. I'm more |
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> than happy to fiddle with all that on my HTPC and home audio system, but |
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> never on my laptop. |
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I'm pretty sure having a USB external harddrive was, at some point, a |
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"complex setup". Guess what: it isn't now. |
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Guess another one: having a BT headset is not, by all means, a |
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"complex setup" in this year and age. |
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> There's the extremes. Now, how would we determine the % numbers of how |
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> real users really use real audio? |
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It doesn't really matter; if Linux cannot handle normal systems (and |
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sorry, but handling a BT headset is, by all means, a "normal system"), |
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then Linux is no more than a server OS and perhaps a nice hobby OS. |
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So normal systems require PA. That *you* perhaps don't require PA is |
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another thing altogether. |
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This is, after all, the XXI century. |
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Regards. |
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Canek Peláez Valdés |
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Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación |
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Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |
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