Good thought!

Is this the new linux fallback explanation? If something doesn't work under linux, surely it's the users fault! Oh wait... I guess that's been the explanaton for awhile, according to some.

Don't get me wrong, I like linux and am involved with it in many ways, but your answer was completely idiotic.

Aww flamebait? Thats the best you could do? Must be a pulse audio developer. Fact is, it sucks.

.. and don't even get me started on some of my high end HTPC cards, thats just talking about my laptop onboard audio.

Linux is still a big fat fail here.

Really, it is.

It can be a pain in the ass to get working still, and is buggy.

I'm sure it works well for some, but many others still have problems.

Wow, troll? So calling people retards is not a troll, but that is? No doubt the person who modded this is of high intelligence.

Insightful? Not really.

It's called making a living, and believe me, forcing pops does indeed work.

Where do you live? Or perhaps, what year?

Damn, even my grandparents know what a "google search" is. I'm positive that everyone I know does. Do they think to do it as often as they could? No, but they do know what it is.

Certainly the majority of people in any modern country know what a "google search" is.

There are many reasons to want a 17" laptop, just as there are many reasons to want a ultra portable 9" laptop. Personally I own both and use them for very different things.

"but it is not feasible to wear protective gear on the building site and work on that" .. WTF?

Have you ever even been on a construction site? The standard protective gear for one of the occupations you mention is going to be a hardhat and steel toe / shanked boots. How do either of those make it hard to use a 17" laptop, and what specifically is harder to use about a 17" laptop than a 13"? Idiot.

Whether your running windows or linux, any button can be mapped to the middle button. (For the logitech mice). Unfortunately, under windows, the Logitech setpoint software is IMO a nightmare.