{"id":169,"date":"2007-09-29T18:43:11","date_gmt":"2007-09-29T08:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/?p=169"},"modified":"2007-09-29T18:43:11","modified_gmt":"2007-09-29T08:43:11","slug":"the-simple-things-in-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/?p=169","title":{"rendered":"The simple things in Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I picked up a copy of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sepultura\">Sepultura&#8217;s<\/a> Against earlier today and decided to play it on my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kubuntu.org\">Kubuntu Linux<\/a> notebook.<\/p>\n<p>Come to think of it, it&#8217;s been a while since I&#8217;ve played a CD with my notebook, I usually use my standalone player or just listen to digital music.<\/p>\n<p>Anywho, I put the CD in the drive and what do you know &#8211; it can&#8217;t read, and hence play, the CD. Now, if this was some weird device driver problem then I&#8217;d understand but this is a DVD multi recorder drive perfectly supported under Linux.<\/p>\n<p>The problem?<\/p>\n<p>Well Kubuntu doesn&#8217;t link the actual block device with the default location the applications are set to use by default.<\/p>\n<p>The solution?<\/p>\n<p>All you need to do is link the block device to the media location:<\/p>\n<p><code>$ sudo ln -s \/dev\/scd0 \/media\/scd0<\/code><\/p>\n<p>Should I have to do that? No.<br \/>\nShould a first-time Linux user have to do that? No.<br \/>\nWould a first-time Linux user know how to do that? No.<br \/>\nWill a first-time Linux user gain a good impression of an operating system that &#8220;can&#8217;t&#8221; play CDs? No.<br \/>\nHow many Linux distributions are there? About 1,293,294,932,573,257,329<br \/>\nIs there a lot of duplication of engineering effort? Yes.<br \/>\nIs it better to direct engineering effort into user experience than a new packaging system? Yes.<br \/>\nIs there any reason why Linux can&#8217;t equal the usability and device support of Windows and Mac OS X? No.<\/p>\n<p>I yearn for the day when Linux rivals the usability of other consumer operating systems. And that day really shouldn&#8217;t be too far away&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I picked up a copy of Sepultura&#8217;s Against earlier today and decided to play it on my Kubuntu Linux notebook. Come to think of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10,20,21,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-hardware-peripherals","category-daytoday","category-kubuntu","category-linux","category-tips-tricks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}