Comment 57 for bug 63352

On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 5:58 PM, Shendai <email address hidden> wrote:
> I never would have thought I'd need to use WINDOWS to get good sound.
> It's unfathomable, really.

Windows isn't giving you good sound, Creative is with drivers. Tell
Creative you are a customer and you want them to support Linux, or
vote with your wallet for a company who already does. The problem is
that as soon as users abandon Linux because of poor driver support,
they tell the companies that they don't need to be supporting Linux!
It says, "I'd like for you to have Linux drivers, but I'll still buy
it if it doesn't and will use a different OS if need be". Imagine you
are in the companies position; it doesn't sound very profitable or
useful to support Linux, does it?

I definitely understand the strong desire to have support here, but I
think a lot of the anger (and there definitely is unnecessary anger in
some of the comments here) is directed at the wrong place. Canonical
is providing a free product and doing a pretty impressive job of
reverse-engineering support for companies who ignore them, but they
can only go so far. Creative is the company that is taking your money
and not living up to your expectations, not Ubuntu, IMO.

For the people mentioning accessibility, is it just that you need
sound, say for the blind or vision-impaired? Can't a cheap PCI or USB
sound card solve the issue in a usable way? Sorry if my ignorance in
this area is causing me to miss something; I am just trying to
understand the issues, so please let me know.