Upstream add pulseaudio as an insane hard dependency to GNOME, Xfce
doesn't. This has nothing to do with Debian. Pulseaudio might provide
something useful for some usages, but it's not needed just to get sound,
since it does use ALSA, it's just a layer. Pulseaudio not always is fine
with the information it needs from the ALSA drivers, so I recommend
against pulseaudio (there are other reasons too) and to set up ALSA
correctly for your audio device.
Why my audio didn't work before I install pulseaudio? As far as I
remember, synaptic package manager didn't install any extra software
apart from pulseaudio and pavucontrol dependencies.
However, IIUC you want it working out of the box, but with Linux it's
nearly impossible to get everything working by default.
If Suse works out of the box, you should use Suse and than never do an
upgrade.
I strongly recommend to learn how to get Linux working by setting it up
yourself and not to hope that there is a distro that makes everything
working by default.
I am busy and I have limited time to build everything from scratch. If I
had time I would love to play with Gentoo and learn more about linux and
how it works but and how I can optimize unfortunately I don't.
I don't have a computer related education as well but I am coming from
an engineering background. So, I guess I may be missing extra stuff that
I was supposed to know already...
If I can't go with Debian I will install Opensuse 13.1, which is an
evergreen version. Opensuse Evergreen editions get support for three
years or more. Setting up evergreen will require some effort on
compiling the extra programs that opensuse doesn't have but at least I
will be able to use it as a productivity machine.
We perhaps could help you, if you would post the messages you get with
or without pulseaudio. Running apps that need audio in a terminal, in
verbose mode, checking log files in /var and last but not least taking a
look at ~/.xsession-errors should provide the needed information.
Yes, I would appreciate any help but I already installed pulseaudio. I
don't see anything wrong with sound as it seems to be working properly
now except for the pulseaudio warning during the boot.
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