Comment 16 for bug 245946

Me, too, on the death of sound. Tried many of the things in this thread, followed some of the links and tried lots of the things in those places, too. Already spent way too much time on this, so I'm giving up, but just feel obliged to note that it seems to be another example of Ubuntu not being ready for prime time. Even if it's a major upgrade, it should not cripple your system to this degree.

I like Ubuntu and will continue to use it. It works quite well on about five machines, pretty well on one, and quite poorly on this one (where the upgrade has broken other things besides the sound). I may have a masochistic streak. However, I cannot recommend it to anyone else, and especially not to friends or beginners. I think it quite sad and unfortunate that Linux basically completely failed to take advantage of the Vista debacle.