Don't be so quick to blame linux (Score 2, Insightful)

Why is it that just because the sound card works in windows, and does not work in linux, that it is some huge oversight on the part of the developers of linux. Why not ask the manufacturor why it doesn't work in linux. Most of the drivers for windows were written by the company that made the hardware, not windows. Don't be so quick to assume that its some linux developer's duty to make some obscure on board sound card work for you. Go blame the manufacturor.