[Discuss] sound

[jdm at moylan.us (dan moylan)]

bill bogstad writes:
>On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 10:47 AM dan moylan <jdm at moylan.us> wrote:

>> as i wrote in my last missive to blu, i have two
>> computers:

>> arcturas, an intel nuc10, running fc31, and
>> aldeberon, an asus aspire E1-472P, also running fc31.
>
>> i run dnf upgrade on each every week.

>> i use timidity to play my fife&drum music files, and find
>> that on each of the computers, aperiodically it will cease
>> to work, and then on some dnf upgrade will return to
>> functionality.

>FC31 has only been out since late October of last year.
>How often has sound failed for you since then?

the sound has failed totally just once and that just a week
or so ago.  my other issues have been with timidity, and i've
had maybe one since october, but it has been an issue over
the years.

>I don't know what your use cases are, but you might consider
>a different distribution that might update differently if
>this is important to you.

no, i like fedora for a bunch of other reasons.

>As for your son, if you decide to switch you can tell him
>that you were running the Linux equivalent of a Windows
>Insider preview edition and you have decided that wasn't the
>best choice.

fc31 is hardly the equivalent of a windows anything, and in
spite of my sound issue, i'm happy with it.  switch?  to
what, windows?  you are kidding, right?

ole dan

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