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> the problem is: i install one app, install another app,

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> both are outputting sound, and it won't work.

You mean: in the best case, only one of them is putting out

sound :) .
> you can port open source apps to audio, and blame

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> commercial companies to write apps for alsa

> (Id did, the new doom III release has alsa support)

To be honest, they shouldn't support ALSA, they should better

support the non existing common unix audio layer.
> but u still need to struggle around with alsa

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> config, etc.

Yep. And normal users are not able to do so.
> the problem is that it doesn't work out of the box

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> like on WinD0w$. well - don't get me wrong, i actually

> like the fact that linux is highly configurable, and

> i personally have no problem to write my .asoundrc,

> but if linux should have success on the desktop, thats

> definitely a must-have.

Yeah, that's my idea. I for mysels can deal with the current

status, but I have the common user in mind.
And in fact, if we had a common audio layer, this doesn't

steal you the possibility to tweak every system aspect

manually.
 Best regards
    ce