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I think some of the virtualization of devices and device sharing works a little better with Pulse. I think the UI is little slicker for some of this. I still us
by th0ma5 13y ago
I think some of the virtualization of devices and device sharing works a little better with Pulse. I think the UI is little slicker for some of this. I still use ALSA for post-processing on my media center, and I have used Jack for music applications. In general Linux audio is a clusterfuck, but once you dig through it all it is hard to criticize without advocating making an even bigger mess.
- pja 13y agoYeah, it's a bit like printing: It seems like it ought to be straightforward but it turns out that reality disagrees rather vehemently.
- dfc 13y agoPrinting? If you think CUPS is bad I take it you never had to get lpd and some crappy HP inkjet to work. What does CUPS not do for you? Last time I looked it even does avahi by default. Sure having a million foomatic filters installed is a waste of space but I have never come across a printer that was not covered by the base set of filters.
- pja 13y agoI don't think CUPS is bad at all: Printing is such a craptacular nightmare that CUPS is one of the least worst solutions around. It speaks volumes that Apple chucked their extant printing code in the bin and switched to CUPS as their printing backend, because CUPS was better than any of the alternatives available to them.
- dfc 13y agoWhat is craptacular about printing?