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For a reasonable comparison, Debian testing could be used, wich is the recommended for desktop/non-critical use.

Debian loves you, why don't love Debian Michael? XD :)

If you only play digital sound sources (AC3, DTS) that's true because you use "passtrought" to send the sound to speakers, and then the Digital to Analog Converter (DAC) of the speakers will tell the...

So all USB professional sound cards don't do hardware mixing? Never heared that, and searching "usb audio class" (whitout quotes) in google the first result I get is a pdf(1) about 1.0 specification....

I have installed pulseaudio and now works fine with my M-Audio 2496 (semi)professional sound card. Some day I will configure Jack to work with Pulseaudio, what maybe now it's easy because there is a...

Well, just read in wikipedia and with static wear leveling free or used space is not a problem: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wear_leveling#Types

And what about partitions? I suposse it just work inside every partition asigned sectors. So would be better to make bigger than needed partitions and don't make swap ones in SSDs.

Great answer allquixotic. I will give a try again to PA in my Debian testing. In the past, it was buggy.

If nowadays wear levelling is well implemented I suposse you are right

That's incorrect. The sampling rate is a digital concept. An speaker doesn't have any problem handling any sound, because they receives it in analog form. If you have a film with AC3 or DTS sound,...

Yes, there are "cheap" SSD disks nowadays, but they use MLC chips, that are slower and have a short life (short number or writes before fail). In 2 or 3 years you could have problems with a SSD MLC...

I think this is the most important reason for majority of people. Just, install and use, and don't worry about old propietary drivers, or having to install something manually, it's great.

I'd...

I love KDE and don't like Gnome, for a GTK desktop I prefer XFCE. But I think that Gnome is a proyect lot of people likes, and I think it's worth. But, ¿developing only for Linux? Maybe, better for...

I hope it resolves the problems with KDE4 desktop effects. I recently (3 days ago) bought an AMD 6850 (after years with Nvidia cards) and if I activate KDE 4.4.5 desktop efffects in my Debian testing...

Ops, ok, thank you, I didn't know that article, altough I might... is from march...

It would be interesting to see for a comparison of resources comsumption (RAM, CPU, disk-IO) of last versions of KDE, Gnome, and maybe XFCE or others...

I'd love to see a Debian testing VS Ubuntu comparison

I'd love to see comparisons that include Debian testing.

Impossible to say it better ;)

I'd like to see Debian Testing included in the comparison :)