Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone

[Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org>]

Kaj Persson wrote: 
> I am running Debian 9 Stretch. After the OS install the Pulseaudio is by
> default the standard audio system with Alsa as the executor. Which is the
> best strategy to remove Pulseaudio and instead letting Alsa be the one and
> only audio system? Are there any serious disadvantages doing so?

There is one serious disadvantage: Firefox doesn't support audio
in any other way except PulseAudio.

If you don't care about that, then you can certainly play music,
record audio, and otherwise do normal audio-related things
through ALSA.

-dsr-