Dan Ritter <d...@randomstring.org> writes: > Kaj Persson wrote: >> I am running Debian 9 Stretch. After the OS install the Pulseaudio is by >> default the standard audio system with Alsa as the executor. Which is the >> best strategy to remove Pulseaudio and instead letting Alsa be the one and >> only audio system? Are there any serious disadvantages doing so? > > There is one serious disadvantage: Firefox doesn't support audio > in any other way except PulseAudio. > > If you don't care about that, then you can certainly play music, > record audio, and otherwise do normal audio-related things > through ALSA.
I got shot of PulseAudio more than a year ago because of serious sound latency issues (700-1200+ms in VirtualBox/WinXP for some old games I love). Using plain ALSA fixed that. I had already switched to Palemoon as a browser (other problems with Firefox - not audio relevant) at that point, and now also use Waterfox, and have not missed PulseAudio or Firefox at all. As I type this, I am listening to Saint-Saëns Symphony No 3 on YouTube using Waterfox with no problems whatsoever. I don't know of any other desktop applications that actually need PulseAudio and can't think of any disadvantage(s) to removing it. Regards, Joe Dennigan -- “Blood sacrifices keep the planet from eating your feet” -- Red