Since you have jack, alsa, oss and pulseaudio all in use at the same time I'd say the default should be changed to dmix. You cannot force a new (inexperienced) ubuntu user to mess with such things (whereas this is a point which works pretty out of the box in windows).
Since you have jack, alsa, oss and pulseaudio all in use at the same time I'd say the default should be changed to dmix. You cannot force a new (inexperienced) ubuntu user to mess with such things (whereas this is a point which works pretty out of the box in windows).