Was it really needed?

Was it really needed?

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It works pretty well now, but I still have nightmares about the early days.

A bunch of popular distros pushed it to users before it was ready, but now that it's stable, it's actually good.

Pulse does some pretty cool stuff that plain ALSA doesn't.
>plug and pay external DACs without apps having to be aware of it
>auto-mute speakers when i accidentally pull out my headphones
>remember volume settings per device
>adjust volume per app
>easily record output from one app in another

Yes. It lets you do modern things like per application volumes and per application network forwarding, which competing OSes from Redmond also have.

yes

it finally adds the layout of input and output streams and arbitrary connections between them + networking etc.

doing that in pure alsa would be a nightmare

*layout -> layer

>when playing audio consumes all of your cpu time

In the beginning was the word. So many people fail at this over and over again. Can't hear words without proper audio.

Of course. Who doesn't love a mixer that uses 40% of your CPU?

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weird, pulseaudio takes

tfw microphone is super quiet in alsa
lads I really don't want to install pottershit
how is jack?

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