OT: PulseAudio On Sat, 2012-01-28 at 14:02 +0100, Heiko Baums wrote:
IMO, systemd/pulseaudio work fantastic, and are orders of magnitude better than their predecessors, and only move the ecosystem forward. No, PulseAudio doesn't work fantastic, it's pure crap as long as it can't handle every sound and audio card, which ALSA, btw., does
Am Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:21:01 -0600 schrieb C Anthony Risinger <anthony@xtfx.me>: perfectly out-of-the-box.
And, no, artificially crippling a (semi-)professional audio card down to stereo with a strange ALSA configuration is not a solution for this.
The majority of Linux users on non-audio Linux mailing lists praise PA, OTOH as soon as they run into trouble regarding to PA, the Linux "pro-"audio users will help them to fix it, usually it's not that majority of users who praise PA, giving the needed hints. I always had issues with PA and I never had an issue when I replaced PA by dummy packages, but seemingly there's a work flow by a majority of Linux users, where having PA installed is an advantage. You might take a look at Debian users mailing list. On KDE4 PA is using 2% CPU already when doing nothing. For some people using 2% for nothing isn't a bug, it's ok for them.
And why should I trust other software by [someone] if he isn't able to get this one software working perfectly.
Why should I trust that a musician is a good drummer, when she's a bad guitarist? Perhaps because she's a drummer ;). - Ralf