Let's face it. Windows does do some thing better.

[Michael T. Richter]

On Tue, 2006-17-01 at 09:18 +0800, Senectus . wrote:
> I'd have to disagree with you.
> _Windows_ does nothing better than Linux.

Take a sound card which doesn't handle AC3 format.  Play a video encoded
with AC3 audio under Windows.  Watch it magically work (or complain that
it doesn't have the right codec).  Do the same in Linux.  Watch Linux
complain "device busy".

In the most common situation, Windows will downmix automagically with no
user intervention.  In the less common situation that it won't cope with
AC3 (I've seen it happen depending on what got loaded by the sound
drivers) it gives you a meaningful error message describing what the
problem actually was (missing codec).

In the Linux situation there is obviously a missing component of some
sort.  (Exactly what kind is unclear since it doesn't seem that ALSA
does automatic linking of codecs or whatever trick it is that Windows
uses.)  But the error message it provides?  "Device busy."  This has
absolutely nothing to do with the actual problem and everything to do
with creating needless end-user confusion.

By any sane standards, Windows handles the above better than Linux.
Disagree?  Explain, then, how inaccurate error reporting is superior to
accurate error reporting (or not causing an error to happen at all).

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