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Err... as a newbie to Ubuntu who wants to use the sound card, the lack of accurate documentation is a real turn-off.
As well as the change from "bell" to "beep" (which is pretty trivial), there's also the issue of the completely new user interface on the "general" tab. A lot of the fields are not exactly self-explanatory (at least to a newbie).
To be honest, assigning a low priority to documentation is self-defeating. Linux will never take off until this casual attitude is changed. Yes, I know that MS documentation & help files are equally badly maintained, but there's so much larger a user base that bulletin boards & help sites quickly fill up with fixes. And then there are books like "Windows xxx Annoyances" which help (albeit a year too late given the publication cycle). Linux appears to have none of this, only a "community" which, as soon as a difficult question is asked, goes rapidly silent.