On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 01:34 +0100, ubuntu-devel-discuss-requ...@lists.ubuntu.com wrote:
> A great overview of the problems with PulseAudio: > http://www.webcitation.org/5kcZfOb4l > > It is 2 years old, but the facts in the article above are still > completely true. PulseAudio has made essentially zero progress in the > last 2 years, which is why it should be abandoned. Pulseaudio has become considerably better since Ubuntu 8.04. Most people's first exposure to Pulseaudio was in 8.04 and it was not a pleasant experience. > Open up any emulator program on Ubuntu and it will skip like mad. Same > with many native games such as Lincity-ng or OpenSonic. This is as > most games on Linux depend on sound timing, which the high latency > nature of PulseAudio messes up. Since when? I haven't played Lincity-ng, but I do play OpenSonic and it works fine with Pulseaudio. Come to think of it, I've been playing quite a few native Linux games without any audio problems. > I have already removed PulseAudio completely from my distribution > because I have found it greatly interferes with multimedia playback > and gaming. I have received no complaints from my users, in fact, many > of them have switched over to infinityOS specifically because I do not > include PulseAudio. The fact that I hadn't heard of your distribution before today indicates that Pulseaudio is not as common a problem as you think. Perhaps you can't remember how bad sound was for EVERYBODY before Pulseaudio came along? I've also been on Ubuntu Forums and seen the people there with sound troubles - someone always suggests removing Pulseaudio, the person tries it, and reports back that they are still having issues even on pure ALSA. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
