Reply To: Software: On & Off the Web

I prefer OpenSUSE’s zypper but, sadly, I’m stuck on a .deb system here. pacman is pretty good, too.

Yep, I use Synaptic all the time to help fill in the blanks. Use apt for installation and everything but Synaptic has helpful features that I use for querying information. It also has a pretty good categorical view, which is pretty nice.

Yeah, Audacity has been a bit messy since the new folks took over. Granted, I haven’t needed to use the program since around 2015 or so. There are some pretty good alternatives on the Arch Wiki (it’s really good for finding cross-platform alternatives). A lot of those are for *nix but some of them are also available on Windows.

Sound in Windows got weird with the changes in Vista. They added an abstraction layer and then removed a ton of features from the audio APIs. Sound cards were broken for years until they finally caught up with the changes. Perhaps the current difficulties are related to the changes?