1/4/2024 0 Comments Supertux midi![]() OSS thinks every computer's audio playback devices are just fancier CT Soundblasters. You know how some people say C thinks every computer is just a fancier PDP-11 ? So yeah, while I understand why PipeWire exists (and I am planning a migration after the next NixOS release that will bring multiple PipeWire changes), I am still gladly that PulseAudio was created. And getting audio output nowadays is much more complex (Bluetooth, HDMI Audio, network streaming, etc). ![]() With the time it was getting better and better until PulseAudio just worked. I remember that I already switched from Fedora (very broken)/Ubuntu (slightly less broken) to Arch Linux, and for sometime I kept using ALSA too.Įventually, between switching Desktop Environments (I think Gnome already used PulseAudio by default them, while KDE was optional but also recommended(?) PA), I decided to try PulseAudio and was surprised how much better the situation was afterwards (also, OSS eventually died completely in Linux systems, so I stopped using OSS emulation afterwards). Initially, most things were broken, and we still had some applications that worked only with OSS so the whole audio suite in Linux was a mess. It only got acceptable later - but still has bugs and issues. At that time Pulseaudio was garbage, it should never have been used then. I still use only ALSA because of that experience. ![]() > My very own system did not work with Pulseaudio when I tried to switch, that was years later. I'm cautiously optimistic about this one. Maybe this can at least replace Pulseaudio, that would be a win. User reports I have seen so far have been positive, though I'm not deep into support forums anymore. It intends to replace a system that never worked flawlessly, seems to focus on compatibility, and the apparent endorsement from the JACK-developers also does not hurt. That said, PipeWire has a better vibe than Pulseaudio did. My very own system did not work with Pulseaudio when I tried to switch, that was years later. I was active as supporter in a Ubuntu support forum at that time and we got flooded with help requests. Ubuntu when making the switch also broke Audio on countless of systems. ![]() Longtime Linux users still remember having the daemon branded as the software that will break your audio. > Speaking of transitions, Fedora 8's own switch to PulseAudio in late 2007 was not a smooth one. I'm not sure why this seems to be remembered so wrongly? Supporting multiple applications was actually the big advantage of ALSA compared to OSS, which at the time really did support only one application per soundcard (without hardware mixing, which broke away at that time). In fact, ALSA had just a very short period where typically only one application accessed the sound card. I recently read up on this to confirm my memory was right when reading a similar statement. If the raw in that sentence is not meant as a special qualifier and this is meant as a statement about ALSA in general, this is wrong. including the raw Linux ALSA sound API, which typically allows only one application to access the sound card.
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