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I don't see how PA is "trimmed down" or "dumbed down". From what I can tell, it provides quite a few more features than ALSA+dmix, which was the solution typica
by icebraining 7y ago
I don't see how PA is "trimmed down" or "dumbed down". From what I can tell, it provides quite a few more features than ALSA+dmix, which was the solution typically used previously. For example, I can now route the output of mpv to HDMI so someone can watch a movie, while I route other applications to my bluetooth headphones. Was this possible with ALSA?
- jacquesm 7y ago> Was this possible with ALSA? Sure, but truth be told ALSA required a bit of knowledge to set up properly. But instead of re-doing the whole audio system from the ground up and tossing away the good with the bad it could have been done just as well by making a proper ALSA auto-configurator. No need for all this re-invention in more buggy ways. Besides that, when PA came out you couldn't do any of that either, it was barely usable and the most frequent PA related activity was 'uninstall'.
- icebraining 7y ago>> Was this possible with ALSA? > Sure Fair enough. I did look and I couldn't find any way to set up independent outputs from different inputs. In any case, I still don't see the dumbing down. > Besides that, when PA came out you couldn't do any of that either, it was barely usable and the most frequent PA related activity was 'uninstall'. Most FOSS software is released to the public at a very early stage. The problem is trigger-happy distros including it by default too soon, but that's not PA's team fault.
- jacquesm 7y agoIf the 'trigger happy' distro happens to have a billion dollar company behind it then you can forget about packages competing on merit.