Re: should I get rid of pulse audio ?

[Mart van de Wege <mvdwege@gmail.com>]

Arno Schuring <aelschuring@hotmail.com> writes:

>> Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2015 13:37:37 -0700
>> From: briand@aracnet.com
>>
> [..snip list of PA inadequacies..]
>>
>> so soliciting opinions on whether or not getting rid of pulse audio is a good idea.
>
> It's a good thing you're asking for opinions, because that's what
> you're gonna get. A lot of it, probably ;)
>
> It can be a good idea, or it may cause your hair to fall out or turn
> gray. When I ditched pulseaudio, my idle system load average (as
> reported through uptime) dropped from 0.7 to 0.03, which was
> vindication enough for me.
>
> If you're running Gnome, ditchting pulseaudio is simply not possible.

Bull.

You can't install gnome without the pulseaudio libraries, but it runs
perfectly fine without the daemon.

Mart

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