Was it really needed?
Was it really needed?
Dominic Morgan
Zachary Lee
It works pretty well now, but I still have nightmares about the early days.
Jackson Adams
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
Carson Torres
Yes. It lets you do modern things like per application volumes and per application network forwarding, which competing OSes from Redmond also have.
Charles Ramirez
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
Zachary Mitchell
*layout -> layer
Juan Howard
>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.
Jose Miller
Of course. Who doesn't love a mixer that uses 40% of your CPU?
Isaiah Nelson
weird, pulseaudio takes
Gavin Jenkins
tfw microphone is super quiet in alsa
lads I really don't want to install pottershit
how is jack?
Colton Nguyen
I have that problem with Windows realkek drivers, not Pulseaudio.
Lucas Edwards
What's the subliminal "NeroHelp" icon in the corner?
Josiah Flores
Now open pavucontrol
Ayden Collins
yes? i see two firefox streams and an IM stream
Levi Russell
For fuck's sake, look at the CPU usage while pavucontrol is open. This is some serious fucking autism.
Julian Nelson
Jack is incredible and powerful, but I can see why pulse.
Camden Ward
If you use bluetooth speakers or headsets, yes.
Oliver Campbell
It probably is much more needed than systemd
Easton King
are you retarded? why would that matter? i care about how much pulseaudio takes, not how much pavucontrol GUI utility takes
Jacob Williams
I'm about to emerge media-sound/pulseaudio fuck pottering but just alsa is so limited.
Hunter Price
Playing dumb is a common tactic of poettering shills