Steve Litt <sl...@troubleshooters.com> writes: > Rainer Weikusat <rainerweiku...@virginmedia.com> wrote: >> Emiliano Marini <emilianomarin...@gmail.com> writes: >> > Word from Eric Hameleers, one of the main Slackware maintainers (AKA >> > alienbob): >> > >> >> "...you have to have PA installed because applications are now >> >> linking against it. What you can still do is configure PA to be an >> >> input channel for ALSA and leave ALSA to control your hardware. >> >> But generally speaking I would not recommend that unless you have >> >> high audio quality standards (being a musician or an audiophile) >> >> in which case you should look at Jackd anyway instead of just ALSA >> >> or PA. >> >> [...] >> >> This is actually really remarkable statement. I understand this >> basically as "If you don't really care about audio quality, pulseaudio >> is surely good enough for you", IOW, "despite pulseaudio is anything >> but good at doing the job it's supposed to be used for, it's surely >> sufficient for 'consumers'". > > In all fairness, I've found few softwares as difficult to install and > get right as Jack. In fact, of the five times I've tried to install it > on various distros, I've succeeded zero times. > > So I'd settle for Pulse (or ALSA or OSS) over Jack simply because I can > actually get those installed.
I didn't mean this as a statement about PulseAudio vs Jack, especially since the only 'audio' I need from my computer is what's necessary for Doom, but about the attitude behind this statement: "If your requirements are so primitive that they can be satisfied without $complicated_audio_middleware, just shut up and be happy that you can hear something at all". _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
