>> 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

>> 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.