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My system had been ALSA-only for many years, until this change forced me to install PulseAudio. About once a week the audio starts crackling and hissing, and I
by dkbrk 10y ago
My system had been ALSA-only for many years, until this change forced me to install PulseAudio. About once a week the audio starts crackling and hissing, and I have to restart the Pulse server. Regardless of how old and unmaintained the ALSA backend was in firefox, it worked, and worked well; I never had a single problem with it.
- Laforet 10y agoOne major factor is security, everything that isn't being actively maintained is passively accumulating exploits. For example, debian switched from ffmpeg to libav and eventually back to ffmpeg again because the libav maintainers have consistently slow to act on bugs and security holes whereas ffmpeg was anything but despite having a much smaller team looking after it. Debian's own security team called the switch because it is not worth the manpower to maintain both codecs.
- AstralStorm 10y agoALSA itself is better maintained than PulseAudio actually. If they cannot find a developer to maintain ALSA backend, they must really be out of money and skill. Yes, pure ALSA is harder, but not that much harder.
- kuschku 10y ago> they must really be out of money and skill A browser dropping below 8% (except for Germany, which is the only country where Firefox is still leading at 43%) surely has different problems than catering to the 1% pure ALSA users of their Linux users, when the Linux users are already 1% of their overall user share. Especially when funding is dependent on market share...