I'd like to get rid of pulseaudio but ...

[Steve Underwood]

Sharpe, Sam J wrote:
> Andras Simon wrote:
>> On 5/28/09, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> wrote:
>> > Steve Underwood wrote:
>> >> I thought most people wanted to get rid of pulseaudio.
>> > Only because people like you perpetuate some stupid myth that 
>> PulseAudio is
>> > evil.
>>
>> This is not true (and is an insult, I'd think).
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> > So PulseAudio is a mixing solution which works for everyone.
>>
>> You must be joking.
> You will probably find that the people who want to get rid of 
> pulseaudio are the vocal minority. For the rest of us, we don't 
> complain because it works perfectly fine for us.
Vocal minority makes them sound like a bunch of whining trouble makers. 
In reality they are the people for whom it didn't work out of the box, 
because when it doesn't work its so ridiculously painful to figure out 
what is wrong. No documentation. No debug messages.
>
> I quite like pulseaudio actually...
Well, its fine when it works. You really wouldn't notice its there, 
which is how these things should be.

Steve