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Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone



On Wed, Jun 05, 2019 at 08:43:31AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 05, 2019 at 10:12:54AM +0200, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> > If you don't care about those things -- or are in for some
> > fiddling -- by all means, drop Pulse, and tell us others about
> > it!

> When I do youtube stuff in google-chrome-stable, it just works, and I've
> never had to mess with anything other than un-muting and raising the
> volume through alsamixer.

[...]

For me, it's cclive or youtube-dl. I don't like others watching me
watching videos ;-)

> So, ALSA is definitely not perfection, but I've heard far more horror
> stories from Pulse Audio users than from ALSA users.

This might as well be selection bias: folks avoiding Pulse are in for
it and may be readier to Know What They're Doing (TM).

Cheers
-- tomás

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