[ale] sound and picture

[Pete Hardie]

I tend to assume stupidity before malice, and after one rude comment, flip
over to assuming malice always for that idiot


On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 7:52 AM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

> Please note the OP email is AOL. My Gmail flagged it as spam as AOL mail
> failed the out bound message as not a real AOL sourced message.
>
> Spam. Troll. Waste of time.
>
> I got a phone call a week back from a new user who wanted to debate
> whether Linux systems stored passwords vs other OS's that don't. He kept
> referring to "back when Linux was more popular than it is now" .  After I
> tried to correct his misunderstanding of how passwords are used, he
> threatened to "come to Atlanta and beat me up". I hung up. The number was
> from area code 604.
> On 01/25/16 19:07, John Caruso wrote:
> > Is there any distro that will handle sound and pictures?
> >
>
> There is Ubuntu Studio - which I've never seen/used. Never needed that.
> Distros are just a convenience 99% of the time. Any linux install can
> run pretty much any linux program with next to zero effort for end-user
> tools just a few installs from a repo away.
>
> Audio and video have "just worked" in Linux for about a decade. Of
> course, there are always a small percentage of systems that have odd
> hardware where things don't "just work."
>
> So what, exactly, do you mean by "handle?"
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Pete Hardie
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