pulseaudio, howto make it work?

[Russell Miller]

Craig White wrote:
>
> You don't seem to care that things like NetworkManager and PulseAudio
> are trying to solve userland device control over things that have on
> Linux been traditionally root controlled devices/daemons.
>
> Both NetworkManager and PulseAudio are not perfect - in fact, far from
> perfect but the need to deliver a user featured desktop system requires
> separation of super user and regular user and you can opt out of those
> efforts and in fact encourage others to do so but those efforts are
> counter productive to the overall goals.
>
>   
I would be much more open-minded if there was more "support", as it 
were, when the new technologies don't work.  So far I've been told it's 
my fault, that it works for everyone else, that the bug was opened to 
the wrong package, I didn't provide enough information... basically 
discouraged at every turn from reporting and trying to fix my issue with 
PulseAudio upstream.  If I'd been a new user, I'd be screwed.  As it is, 
I'm just annoyed, and damn certain not to take it any further - I fixed 
the problem, I reported the problem here, I reported the problem on 
bugzilla... I'm not going to bust my rear any further.

I will admit that I'm an old fart when it comes to system 
administration, and I believe that Fedora is trying a bit too hard to be 
friendly to new users to the point where the veterans are being left 
with a whole bunch of software layers that they neither need nor want, 
with no way to turn them off on install if they so choose.

I would be content if an expert mode was offered (one is) that allowed 
one to turn off most of the desktop optimizations like NetworkManager 
and PulseAudio and left you with a fairly barebones system that you 
could configure how you wanted without having to fight with things 
telling you how to do things.

--Russell