Hi, On Thu, 2012-05-10 at 06:34 +0200, Fabio Erculiani wrote: > I think expressing my own opinion about Lennart-made software is my > right, after all.
I would express my opinion about Fabio made software, but I've never heard of any. > Firstly, it's almost impossible nowadays to avoid including avahi, > systemd and pulseaudio into a desktop distro so, there is no real > choice. This issue became a sensible matter for those users who for > instance, wanted to have a silly mp3 player working without going > through the PA nonsense, really missing the old > ALSA-oh-it-was-always-working days. Maybe the reason every sensible distribution uses Avahi, Pulseaudio, etc is because they are better than other solutions out there? Do you think is a fast conspiracy to make your life suck? I believe engineers in every distribution are looking at what's available and picking what they think is the best solution, and it turns out Lennart is pretty damn good at making useful software. Was alsa always working? I remember spending hours trying to figure out the right control in alsamixer and fighting with alsa's arcane configuration languages (it has 3 different ones). And how do you deal with modern technologies like Bluetooth audio without Pulseaudio exactly? > Of course, I am not only bringing my personal opinion here, but the > one of the majority of users I've been talking with. I think you only hear from users who like to complain, others are just happy that everything works for them thanks to Pulseaudio, systemd, etc. If you think that Lennart does not solve problems, maybe it's because you don't even understand what the problems were? For example, I encourage you to read about how the dynamic latency in PA allows for lower power usage or how modern audio hardware is designed to use a userspace sound server, etc. -- Olivier Crête tes...@gentoo.org Gentoo Developer
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