GNU/Linux is and always has been the empowerment of the PERSONAL
COMPUTER, which is perhaps the greatest liberating device in
human history.

Microslop/Apphole have transformed the PC into a talking, desktop
billboard. But GNU/Linux restores the power of the PC to the
common man.

So what the fuck do YOU do with your GNU/Linux PC? Huh? What?

I don't mean watching Netflix or YouTube. Productively and
creatively, what the fuck do you do?

And don't drag that spurious argument that work/employment
computers only use Microslop/Apphole. Work/employment has nothing
whatsoever to do with the liberation of digital man.

C'mon. Fess up, mutherfuckers. What do you do with your GNU/Linux
PC? Huh? What?

Provide testimony. Otherwise you do not fucking belong to a
revolutionary Usenet group.

Testify! Fucking lackey assholes!

Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> wrote:

>GNU/Linux is and always has been the empowerment of the PERSONAL
>COMPUTER, which is perhaps the greatest liberating device in
>human history.
>
>Microslop/Apphole have transformed the PC into a talking, desktop
>billboard. But GNU/Linux restores the power of the PC to the
>common man.
>
>So what the fuck do YOU do with your GNU/Linux PC? Huh? What?
>
>I don't mean watching Netflix or YouTube. Productively and
>creatively, what the fuck do you do?
>
>And don't drag that spurious argument that work/employment
>computers only use Microslop/Apphole. Work/employment has nothing
>whatsoever to do with the liberation of digital man.
>
>C'mon. Fess up, mutherfuckers. What do you do with your GNU/Linux
>PC? Huh? What?
>
>Provide testimony. Otherwise you do not fucking belong to a
>revolutionary Usenet group.
>
>Testify! Fucking lackey assholes!

I make fun of your, inferior, Linux computer, here on COLA.

--
Joel W. Crump

Amendment XIV
Section 1.

[...] No state shall make or enforce any law which shall
abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the
United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of
life, liberty, or property, without due process of law;
nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal
protection of the laws.

Dobbs rewrites this, it is invalid precedent. States are
liable for denying needed abortions, e.g. TX.

On 4/5/24 15:27, Farley Flud wrote:
> GNU/Linux is and always has been the empowerment of the PERSONAL
> COMPUTER, which is perhaps the greatest liberating device in
> human history.
>
> Microslop/Apphole have transformed the PC into a talking, desktop
> billboard. But GNU/Linux restores the power of the PC to the
> common man.
>
> So what the fuck do YOU do with your GNU/Linux PC? Huh? What?
>
> I don't mean watching Netflix or YouTube. Productively and
> creatively, what the fuck do you do?
>
> And don't drag that spurious argument that work/employment
> computers only use Microslop/Apphole. Work/employment has nothing
> whatsoever to do with the liberation of digital man.
>
> C'mon. Fess up, mutherfuckers. What do you do with your GNU/Linux
> PC? Huh? What?
>
> Provide testimony. Otherwise you do not fucking belong to a
> revolutionary Usenet group.
>
> Testify! Fucking lackey assholes!
>

Perhaps it is because we are still waiting for you to upload more videos
of it.

On 4/5/2024 4:27 PM, Lyin' Larry Piet babbled:

> So what the fuck do YOU do with your GNU/Linux PC? Huh? What?

You first, bozo:

"I am heavily involved in virtually ALL AREAS of contemporary computing"
- Feeb, self-important twat

Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> wrote at 20:27 this Friday (GMT):
> GNU/Linux is and always has been the empowerment of the PERSONAL
> COMPUTER, which is perhaps the greatest liberating device in
> human history.
>
> Microslop/Apphole have transformed the PC into a talking, desktop
> billboard. But GNU/Linux restores the power of the PC to the
> common man.
>
> So what the fuck do YOU do with your GNU/Linux PC? Huh? What?
>
> I don't mean watching Netflix or YouTube. Productively and
> creatively, what the fuck do you do?
>
> And don't drag that spurious argument that work/employment
> computers only use Microslop/Apphole. Work/employment has nothing
> whatsoever to do with the liberation of digital man.
>
> C'mon. Fess up, mutherfuckers. What do you do with your GNU/Linux
> PC? Huh? What?
>
> Provide testimony. Otherwise you do not fucking belong to a
> revolutionary Usenet group.
>
> Testify! Fucking lackey assholes!

Artistry and coding, mostly.
--
user <candycane> is generated from /dev/urandom

On 4/5/24 16:24, Physfitfreak wrote:
> On 4/5/24 15:27, Farley Flud wrote:
>> GNU/Linux is and always has been the empowerment of the PERSONAL
>> COMPUTER, which is perhaps the greatest liberating device in
>> human history.
>>
>> Microslop/Apphole have transformed the PC into a talking, desktop
>> billboard.  But GNU/Linux restores the power of the PC to the
>> common man.
>>
>> So what the fuck do YOU do with your GNU/Linux PC?  Huh?  What?
>>
>> I don't mean watching Netflix or YouTube.  Productively and
>> creatively, what the fuck do you do?
>>
>> And don't drag that spurious argument that work/employment
>> computers only use Microslop/Apphole.  Work/employment has nothing
>> whatsoever to do with the liberation of digital man.
>>
>> C'mon.  Fess up, mutherfuckers.  What do you do with your GNU/Linux
>> PC?  Huh?  What?
>>
>> Provide testimony.  Otherwise you do not fucking belong to a
>> revolutionary Usenet group.
>>
>> Testify!  Fucking lackey assholes!
>>
>
>
> Perhaps it is because we are still waiting for you to upload more videos
> of it.

Plus, in Linux there's no adequate Persian phonetic keyboard layout so I
could type in Persian. I tried everything available, and they're all
badly made and cannot be switched back and forth with English easily.

The one written years back for Windows still works like king. Half of
what I blabber on the internet is in Persian. You think I should change
computers when I'm switching between languages? I won't do that even if
you pay me :)

Le 05-04-2024, Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> a écrit :
>
> Provide testimony. Otherwise you do not fucking belong to a
> revolutionary Usenet group.

You have nothing to do with revolutions. You are stuck in the past and
fight every modern stuff that comes along your way. You are the opposite
of a revolution guy. How can you claim anything about revolution when
you fight everything who could look like one?

--
Si vous avez du temps à perdre :
https://scarpet42.gitlab.io

On Fri, 5 Apr 2024 22:18:46 -0500, Physfitfreak wrote:

>
> Plus, in Linux there's no adequate Persian phonetic keyboard layout so I
> could type in Persian. I tried everything available, and they're all
> badly made and cannot be switched back and forth with English easily.
>

That's an interesting problem, and there must be a lot of people
working on it.

Check out these links:

https://github.com/sinadarvi/windows-persian-keyboard-for-linux

https://keyman.com/keyboards/basic_kbdfa

A Google search for "linux Persian keyboard" should provide
many more links.

There could also be Linux user groups that could give you
assistance.

Farley Flud wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

> <snip>

You didn't say "please".

--
The camel died quite suddenly on the second day, and Selena fretted
sullenly and, buffing her already impeccable nails -- not for the first
time since the journey begain -- pondered snidely if this would dissolve
into a vignette of minor inconveniences like all the other holidays spent
with Basil.
-- Winning sentence, 1983 Bulwer-Lytton bad fiction contest.

On Fri, 05 Apr 2024 20:27:32 +0000, Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> wrote in
<17c37c35720e7ddc$20295$3326957$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com>:

> Provide testimony. Otherwise you do not fucking belong to a
> revolutionary Usenet group.
>
> Testify! Fucking lackey assholes!

Sorry, didn't hear the sound of your whine over all this ocean noise!\\

The superior sound-routing capabilities of pulseaudio allows me to stream
video through Twitch or YouTube without having the sound of another video
bleed into the stream. Also, IM pings (such as from WhatsApp) don't have
to be on my stream. This is handled with a virtual audio device.

Before, I've actually bought products for Windows that claimed to have
this capability, but they never worked right with OBS-Studio.

Speaking of which, I used xdaliclock for a visual timer. There is no
xdaliclock port for Windows, so there's another reason to keep using
Linux.

I shudder to think what would be necessary to build Pan for Windows.
It's not a cakewalk on Linux, either, but much more manageable
(Sidenote: It escapes me why you don't take the time to stop being
a "distro lackey" and build your own Pan from sources. Jedi knights
build their own light sabers, don't they?)

Anyway, back to streaming: when I stream, it's usually
games, and those games often used DirectX. The Linux implementation
of DX is DXVK, which uses Vulkan -- and can run faster than Windows.
Elite Dangerous Odyssey uses Frontier Development's _Cobra 4.0_
engine, which I cap at 90 FPS. I run the 60Hz display at 4K resolution
with all the knobs cranked up to "Ultra". There's still plenty of
overhead to run OBS-Studio, which can stream the video while writing
to the 10G-Base-T attached NAS.

A word about the NAS: it is a Synology DiskStation, which also
runs Linux. But that is more of an appliance, with web-based
GUI management software. I record at 4 Gbit, because the disks are
only 6 Gbit SATA drives. That is RAID5. The new NAS that I haven't
assembled yet will have a RAID0 volume for captures; it will be a
two-volume NAS with the other volume either RAID5 or something I
haven't tried yet: Synology's hybrid RAID that allows one to
grow the volume.

Enough Linux porn for now. (Was it good for you?)

--
-v

On 4/6/24 05:52, Farley Flud wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Apr 2024 22:18:46 -0500, Physfitfreak wrote:
>
>>
>> Plus, in Linux there's no adequate Persian phonetic keyboard layout so I
>> could type in Persian. I tried everything available, and they're all
>> badly made and cannot be switched back and forth with English easily.
>>
>
> That's an interesting problem, and there must be a lot of people
> working on it.
>
> Check out these links:
>
> https://github.com/sinadarvi/windows-persian-keyboard-for-linux
>
> https://keyman.com/keyboards/basic_kbdfa
>
> A Google search for "linux Persian keyboard" should provide
> many more links.
>
> There could also be Linux user groups that could give you
> assistance.
>

Done all that! There's no problem in installing a Persian keyboard
layout. The main issue is that the layout works only in certain apps and
not the rest. They don't carry that layout into every app one uses in
Linux.

And I happen to use an app quite often, in Linux, but have not found any
layout out there that works inside it.

So Linux is still for fiddlers and fun lovers. As soon as you want
something serious done, you see the hand of Microsoft bribing the
developers.

On 4/6/24 10:10, Physfitfreak wrote:
> On 4/6/24 05:52, Farley Flud wrote:
>> On Fri, 5 Apr 2024 22:18:46 -0500, Physfitfreak wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Plus, in Linux there's no adequate Persian phonetic keyboard layout so I
>>> could type in Persian. I tried everything available, and they're all
>>> badly made and cannot be switched back and forth with English easily.
>>>
>>
>> That's an interesting problem, and there must be a lot of people
>> working on it.
>>
>> Check out these links:
>>
>> https://github.com/sinadarvi/windows-persian-keyboard-for-linux
>>
>> https://keyman.com/keyboards/basic_kbdfa
>>
>> A Google search for "linux Persian keyboard" should provide
>> many more links.
>>
>> There could also be Linux user groups that could give you
>> assistance.
>>
>
>
> Done all that! There's no problem in installing a Persian keyboard
> layout. The main issue is that the layout works only in certain apps and
> not the rest. They don't carry that layout into every app one uses in
> Linux.
>
> And I happen to use an app quite often, in Linux, but have not found any
> layout out there that works inside it.
>
> So Linux is still for fiddlers and fun lovers. As soon as you want
> something serious done, you see the hand of Microsoft bribing the
> developers.
>
>

Not necessarily "bribing" the developers. The developers might
themselves be Microsoft men!

On Sat, 6 Apr 2024 10:10:27 -0500, Physfitfreak wrote:

>
> Done all that! There's no problem in installing a Persian keyboard
> layout. The main issue is that the layout works only in certain apps and
> not the rest. They don't carry that layout into every app one uses in
> Linux.
>

I cannot believe that.

If you are using a GUI, then your are likely using X Window. With X,
the keyboard is handled independently from any application. X just
interprets the keypress and sends it to the application. Therefore
all applications should work.

In other words, applications do not implement the keyboard; X implements
the keyboard on behalf of the application.

If the application does not "carry" the layout (whatever that means) then
the application, and not Linux, is at fault.

On Sat, 6 Apr 2024 11:36:55 -0000 (UTC), vallor wrote:

>
> The superior sound-routing capabilities of pulseaudio allows me to stream
> video through ...
>

Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!

REAL MEN do only one fucking thing at a time. Thus, Alsa, upon which that
junk PA is totally dependent, is quite sufficient.

(Hint: Learn Alsa. It's WAY above your fucking lackey head.)

>
> This is handled with a virtual audio device.
>

Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!

REAL MEN know no virtual. It's all bare fucking metal or it's nothing at all.

>
> Speaking of which, I used xdaliclock for a visual timer. There is no
> xdaliclock port for Windows, so there's another reason to keep using
> Linux.
>
> [snip remaining idiotic cacophony]
>

Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!

This kind of fucking gibberish can be understood only by a stupefied
lackey.

You cannot represent true, but only bastardized. GNU/Linux.

Therefore, GTFO and STFO.

On 4/6/24 12:04, Farley Flud wrote:
> On Sat, 6 Apr 2024 10:10:27 -0500, Physfitfreak wrote:
>
>>
>> Done all that! There's no problem in installing a Persian keyboard
>> layout. The main issue is that the layout works only in certain apps and
>> not the rest. They don't carry that layout into every app one uses in
>> Linux.
>>
>
> I cannot believe that.
>
> If you are using a GUI, then your are likely using X Window. With X,
> the keyboard is handled independently from any application. X just
> interprets the keypress and sends it to the application. Therefore
> all applications should work.
>
> In other words, applications do not implement the keyboard; X implements
> the keyboard on behalf of the application.
>
> If the application does not "carry" the layout (whatever that means) then
> the application, and not Linux, is at fault.
>

Then the application is at fault :) Therefore Linux nommo.

On Sat, 6 Apr 2024 11:36:55 -0000 (UTC), vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> wrote
in <uurc4n$1vjvo$1@dont-email.me>:

> On Fri, 05 Apr 2024 20:27:32 +0000, Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> wrote
> in <17c37c35720e7ddc$20295$3326957$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com>:
>
>> Provide testimony. Otherwise you do not fucking belong to a
>> revolutionary Usenet group.
>>
>> Testify! Fucking lackey assholes!
>
> Sorry, didn't hear the sound of your whine over all this ocean noise!\\
>
> The superior sound-routing capabilities of pulseaudio allows me to
> stream video through Twitch or YouTube without having the sound of
> another video bleed into the stream. Also, IM pings (such as from
> WhatsApp) don't have to be on my stream. This is handled with a virtual
> audio device.

Furley Fart couldn't bring himself to answer all of my message, so I
suppose turnabout is fair play: Herein are his points, paraphrased.

"Real men do only one thing at a time." Then go back to MS-DOS, weirdo.

"Learn ALSA" -- Friend, you must not have been using Linux for very
long. After OSS, ALSA was the only game in town, and is still
the driver component for pulse. I was running mplayer on my
HTPC with ac3 passthrough when you were a gleam in your father's
eye, Son.

>
> Before, I've actually bought products for Windows that claimed to have
> this capability, but they never worked right with OBS-Studio.
>
> Speaking of which, I used xdaliclock for a visual timer. There is no
> xdaliclock port for Windows, so there's another reason to keep using
> Linux.
>

Here is where he snipped. Let's see what he took out of my post!

> I shudder to think what would be necessary to build Pan for Windows.
> It's not a cakewalk on Linux, either, but much more manageable
> (Sidenote: It escapes me why you don't take the time to stop being a
> "distro lackey" and build your own Pan from sources. Jedi knights build
> their own light sabers, don't they?)

[ crickets.wav from the distro-lackey Farley ]

> Anyway, back to streaming: when I stream, it's usually games, and those
> games often used DirectX. The Linux implementation of DX is DXVK, which
> uses Vulkan -- and can run faster than Windows. Elite Dangerous Odyssey
> uses Frontier Development's _Cobra 4.0_
> engine, which I cap at 90 FPS. I run the 60Hz display at 4K resolution
> with all the knobs cranked up to "Ultra". There's still plenty of
> overhead to run OBS-Studio, which can stream the video while writing to
> the 10G-Base-T attached NAS.

[ Farley describes this as "cacaphony" -- but it describes
realtime rendering using high-performance computing, the
likes of which Farley never sees on his single-task system ]

> A word about the NAS: it is a Synology DiskStation, which also runs
> Linux. But that is more of an appliance, with web-based GUI management
> software. I record at 4 Gbit, because the disks are only 6 Gbit SATA
> drives. That is RAID5. The new NAS that I haven't assembled yet will
> have a RAID0 volume for captures; it will be a two-volume NAS with the
> other volume either RAID5 or something I haven't tried yet: Synology's
> hybrid RAID that allows one to grow the volume.

[ "cacaphony" again? Clearly, Farley has no knowledge of modern
high-performance Network-Attached Storage systems. So, "crickets.wav"
again from him. ]

Conclusion: Farley is a blow-hard. (But you already knew that.)

Captain's log, supplemental: The guy asks for people to post about
their uses for Linux, then ridicules a fairly reasonable response.

Linux is a good OS for high-performance computing. Farley has never
posted once about any HPC he's done -- mostly, he posts about how
enamored he is with updates to his distro. Boooriiing.

--
-v

On 4/6/2024 5:07 PM, vallor wrote:

> Farley has never posted once about any HPC he's done --

That's because the fraud hasn't done ANY HPC, despite the many ludicrous
claims he makes:

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

I am currently using a C backend (GNU Scientific Library) for HPC and
Wxmaxima for plotting the results.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

My area is exclusively HPC, or high performance computing.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

The stuff I do on my GNU/Linux machine is on par with the
cutting edge in HPC.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

Where are the REAL PROGRAMMERS? Where are the HPC programmers?

HPC = High-Performance Computing and is the ONLY area of REAL
COMPUTING. Everything else is fashionable bullshit.

GNU/Linux, in the right hands (like mine), excels at HPC.

Get these database dilettantes outa here.

Only HPC matters, and if you can't master HPC you are a fucking
computing NOBODY.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

Le 06-04-2024, Farley Flud <fflud@gnu.rocks> a écrit :
> On Sat, 6 Apr 2024 11:36:55 -0000 (UTC), vallor wrote:
>
>> This is handled with a virtual audio device.
>>
>
> Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!
>
> REAL MEN know no virtual.

s/MEN/CAVEMEN/

> It's all bare fucking metal or it's nothing at all.

You see, you are stuck in the past and fight anything modern without
trying to understand the changes. You are nothing like a revolutionary.

For your information, I don't know when you work in a company for the
last time. In a department related with computers I mean. But now, it's
virtual everywhere. The bare metal is only used to run virtual machines
and personal computers. The personal computers access only VM.

For the others, I know cavemen never existed but it's a word he can
understand.

--
Si vous avez du temps à perdre :
https://scarpet42.gitlab.io

vallor wrote:

>"Real men do only one thing at a time." Then go back to MS-DOS, weirdo.

Hehe. I've been multitasking since 1985 and my Amiga 1000!

--
Flathead: Stop the distribution of the day and fix the ones already
out there. Better yet settle on one and pool the resources to make a
super distribution that might actually have a prayer of killing off
Windows.

Quack: [Advocate's name redacted] will not understand. He thinks its
good for Linux that choice enables people to make more crap rather
than to improve the existing code base.

On Sun, 07 Apr 2024 10:25:52 -0500, chrisv wrote:

> vallor wrote:
>
>>"Real men do only one thing at a time." Then go back to MS-DOS, weirdo.
>
> Hehe. I've been multitasking since 1985 and my Amiga 1000!
>

Birds of a feather flock together, i.e. retards on COLA congregate.

We ain't talking about MULTIPROCESSING.

The context is SOUND. What kind of bird-brained retard wants to
listen to two or more separate sounds streams simultaneously?

PulseAudio, a product of the supreme degenerate Poettering, aims
to combine sounds from various sources and then present that ridiculous
cacophony as "progress."

REAL MEN, like me, use Alsa to listen to one thing and only one thing at
a time. What the fuck could be more reasonable and natural?

Of course, reasonableness and naturalness to a fucking retard is
a completely different animal.

You want simultaneous streams? Check this, retards:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXV4nTfGHuI

Le 06-04-2024, vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> a écrit :
>
> "Real men do only one thing at a time." Then go back to MS-DOS, weirdo.

The stupidity of this sentence is not limited to computers. But it
explains a lot about his limited usage of his computer. He can't use it
when updating/compiling his pretended Gentoo.

If he can't do two things at the same time, He probably can't walk
when he speaks with someone else for the same reason. It's not what
anyone would call real man. "Stop walking because I need to hear what
you say and real men do only one thing at a time."

It should be funny to see how he could drive without breathing too. What
a great Darwin award it would be: he died suffocating to avoid a car
accident because "real men do only one thing at a time".

--
Si vous avez du temps à perdre :
https://scarpet42.gitlab.io

Le 07-04-2024, Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> a écrit :
>
> The context is SOUND. What kind of bird-brained retard wants to
> listen to two or more separate sounds streams simultaneously?

On some games there is the sound music and there are the noises at the
same time. Some people don't like the sound and prefer listening their
own music. But they prefer to keep the noises because they can provide
information. So being able to listen to your own music when hearing the
sounds of the game can be useful. For example.

--
Si vous avez du temps à perdre :
https://scarpet42.gitlab.io

On 07 Apr 2024 16:35:05 GMT, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:

> If he can't do two things at the same time, He probably can't walk when
> he speaks with someone else for the same reason. It's not what anyone
> would call real man. "Stop walking because I need to hear what you say
> and real men do only one thing at a time."

Guilty. When talking to my ex last week I mentioned I was out in the
woods. She asked if I was walking while talking on the phone and I told
her I was sitting on a stump admiring the scenery since I didn't think
walking down a steep, mountain trail while talking on a cellphone would
have a happy ending.

I would guess 98% of the miles I've driven in my life were solo. I've
found that carrying on a conversation can be detrimental to paying
attention to the road.

On 07 Apr 2024 16:42:18 GMT, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:

> Le 07-04-2024, Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> a écrit :
>>
>> The context is SOUND. What kind of bird-brained retard wants to
>> listen to two or more separate sounds streams simultaneously?
>
> On some games there is the sound music and there are the noises at the
> same time. Some people don't like the sound and prefer listening their
> own music. But they prefer to keep the noises because they can provide
> information. So being able to listen to your own music when hearing the
> sounds of the game can be useful. For example.
>

Alsa can also mix sound sources. There is no need for that junk
PulseAudio.

But Alsa requires a lot of expertise, which is why I asked that retard
to LEARN Alsa, if he could but he can't.

And neither can YOU.

On 4/7/24 11:30, Farley Flud wrote:
> On Sun, 07 Apr 2024 10:25:52 -0500, chrisv wrote:
>
>> vallor wrote:
>>
>>> "Real men do only one thing at a time." Then go back to MS-DOS, weirdo.
>>
>> Hehe. I've been multitasking since 1985 and my Amiga 1000!
>>
>
> Birds of a feather flock together, i.e. retards on COLA congregate.
>
> We ain't talking about MULTIPROCESSING.
>
> The context is SOUND. What kind of bird-brained retard wants to
> listen to two or more separate sounds streams simultaneously?
>
> PulseAudio, a product of the supreme degenerate Poettering, aims
> to combine sounds from various sources and then present that ridiculous
> cacophony as "progress."
>
> REAL MEN, like me, use Alsa to listen to one thing and only one thing at
> a time. What the fuck could be more reasonable and natural?
>
> Of course, reasonableness and naturalness to a fucking retard is
> a completely different animal.
>
> You want simultaneous streams? Check this, retards:
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXV4nTfGHuI
>

What is Alsa? I have options with Celluloid, Rhythmbox, mpv, and VLC to
listen to my mp3 files. Celluloid seems to be clearer than the rest. Is
there an "Alsa" app that is better? When I search in software manager
for "Alsa", like every other time I try that funky app, a whole bunch of
packages pop up I don't know in what order and what they are and why
they appeared when I searched for "Alsa". And a few among this pile of
shit so idiotically listed in front of me, are checked as installed.

So tell me. Do I have Alsa installed? Did you mean Alsa as an app to
begin with?

Here, I even did a

which Alsa

for you. It says,

hydrogen@hydrogen-OptiPlex-7050:~$ which Alsa
hydrogen@hydrogen-OptiPlex-7050:~$

So it says _nothing_ while some of the packages listed in the software
manager have check-marks indicating Alsa is installed.

Never mind :)

Linux is not for general public. Microsoft doesn't want that. You need
to slave for it, and I won't do that.

I want Linux to slave for me.