@n_hologram I am not sure I get the analogy, let me try:
Your cheese is Firefox, your Foreman grill is PA+ALSA, your stove+cast iron is ALSA?
- So Pulseaudio is "supposed" to provide an "easy interface". Well it didn't since I had to tweak it so that it would actually work with my volumes buttons and also, stop blasting my ears.
Your new Foreman grill doesn't grill my cheese and can explode unless I tweak it. Let's say that it is because I used italian cheese.
- Firefox is "appliance agnostic". Today, your are right. I am using FF on OpenBSD with only sndio as my audio server. Someone has to do the work though (mozilla or an OpenBSD dev, I don't know).
But your Foreman grill is meant to unify the grilling process and as a consequence more and more cheese are going to need your grill to even be consumable. They will burn if cooked with anything else than your grill.
As a bonus your Foreman grill takes longer to cook than everyone's grandma stove.
I would like to hear use cases where Pulseaudio is bringing progress over ALSA/OSS (+jack/sndio). By progress I mean, solving problems that were unsolved without bringing new ones.
In the past, I have been to quick to misjudge and dismiss software that later, proved to be the best tools for my use case (Xfce4, OpenBSD). Before completely trashing pulseaudio, I prefer to hear other's opinions.
n_hologram wrote:
Is anyone else hungry?
Eating raw pasta like a madman waiting for the water to boil