loved the first answer. I still remember the opengl 2.0 debates. what puzzles me is the little mention of the horrible state of video, and audio in linux. alsa

loved the first answer. I still remember the opengl 2.0 debates. what puzzles me is the little mention of the horrible state of video, and audio in linux. alsa was an attempt to "fix" the audio sub(eco)system. the broken audio is probably one of the reasons why theres still no proper audio apps in linux. video? well if you have a recent nvidia card on a desktop system you can at least play games. but that's about it. kernel developers make sure the closed source blobs don't use too many gpl features. nvidia blames it on the kernel devs, the kernel devs blame it on nvidia. everyone talks about how awesome the opensource intel drivers are, and even though they got a lot faster recently with all the valve feedback, they were an order of magnitude slower than the windows drivers(i don't know if that's still the case). and mesa? well, you judge yourself. I completely agree on your whole developer ecosystem. To me that is the sole reason why mac osx desktop utility apps strived while linux' more or les stagnated(no data just feeling, and maybe that's a bit harsh, but compared to osx apps that's certainly the case).