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Ubuntu's adoption of it was what pushed me away from Desktop Linux, after about a decade of being mainly a Linux user. Suddenly the one thing that had actually
by corrral 4y ago
Ubuntu's adoption of it was what pushed me away from Desktop Linux, after about a decade of being mainly a Linux user. Suddenly the one thing that had actually Just Worked for almost that entire decade, became unstable, unpredictable, and, to add insult to injury, ate tons of memory and processor cycles for unclear and likely unjustifiable reasons.
- kaba0 4y agoI’m sorry but I really can’t take any such take seriously. If you mean alsa, it may have worked (though let’s be honest, there was a painstakingly high amount of sound hardware that simply wasn’t supported well for decades, which was fixed over a similar timeline. “Linux sound bad” memes have been around way before PA became a thing), but the thing is, it is not adequate in itself for a typical desktop usecase, simple as that.