Number 2, for preference. I don't know of many applications that need esound compatibility in pulseaudio.
However, there are many people who kill pulseaudio and who need esound to run alsa applications running in wine. Or to use Audacity, which is a popular program. Alsa / esound is critical for me. I use wine to run speech recognition software. Wine does not work with pulseaudio, especially in input / recording mode. Now, with wine I can use oss instead of alsa, but the sound isn't as good. I think it's the latency as well as the sound quality. Using speech recognition, you always need the best-quality sound possible, the most detail, with the lowest latency. Speech recognition software is complex, resource-intensive and temperamental. -- installing esound requires removing ubuntu-studio-desktop https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/429311 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
