Comment by innguest | Hacker News Reader

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"It really isn't."

"Not really."

"Linux sound hasn't been a problem for some of us for, oh, I don't know, well over 10 years"

"Sound on Linux wasn't a problem 5 years ago. In fact, it wasn't a problem even earlier."

"Sound setup bad? Not compared to 5 or 10 years ago, no. During that period (I can guarantee!) both Win and OSX were ALSO -miserable- experiences."

"No, sound is not a problem on Linux. I wonder if it ever was actually."

"I don't even understand where this myths come from."

Another reason I gave up on Linux was all the denialists that insisted that everything works fine on Linux and that if it's not working fine for me then I must be doing something wrong.

I don't understand how one can come here and say "Not a problem" edgewise to so many comments saying "Yes, definitely". Never listen to a fanatic, I guess.

A lot of it probably stems from the use cases. Most Linux distros have the "out of the box" use case down. When people start to fiddle with it or push the limits, they increasingly change their tone. Nothing fanatical about it. Just different points of view.

I can state it simply. My laptop dual-boots into Linux Mint 14 and Windows 8. Both systems recognized the soundcard without any hassle. If I pick a random YouTube video (so not anything ultra fancy), the Windows 8 sound is phenomenal and Linux Mint sound is passable. And I'm not talking sound on the level of "The Great MP3 Bitrate Experiment"[1], I'm talking the quality of a Bose against airline freebie headsets.

[1] http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/06/the-great-mp3-bitra...

You have that with any topic. If you want to be credible, investigate which percentage of people have problems. That is an interesting statistic.

Compare to this: You want to buy a new laptop. You'll see various complaints. Maybe even the same amount of complaints for company X and company Y. This doesn't at all indicate a problem. However, if company X has 0.1% laptop market share and company Y has 40% market share, I'd go for company Y (same amount of complaints vs bigger usage).

Or in other words: Suggesting "there is a problem" as well as "there is not a problem" is both useless. Loads of distributions use PulseAudio by default btw. :P

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