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Re:PulseAudio requirement breaks Firefox on ALSA-only systems by journey2 on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @11:58PM (#13873699)
On top of the ideological issues I see with things like PulseAudio, it has always given me headaches in practice. I've never had issues with ALSA, but now I need to install an audio server so it can talk to ALSA? These are strange, unfortunate times. I feel linux will eventually succeed at becoming Windows and it makes me sad.
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Re:PulseAudio requirement breaks Firefox on ALSA-only systems by rexicus on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @11:59AM (#13877011)
> I've never had issues with ALSA

You haven't been acquainted with asoundrc/dmix/alsamixer. ALSA is to Pulse as XFree86 is to Xorg, I feel no nostalgia for it at all.

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Re:PulseAudio requirement breaks Firefox on ALSA-only systems by kasabali on Friday March 17, 2017 @06:19AM (#13892860)
> ALSA is to Pulse as XFree86 is to Xorg, I feel no nostalgia for it at all.

No it is not. X.org is a fork of XFree86. Pulseaudio is a sound daemon built on top of ALSA.

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Re:PulseAudio requirement breaks Firefox on ALSA-only systems by digi_owl on Saturday March 18, 2017 @10:59AM (#13901532)
And there are times i wish i could roll back the clock to the XFree86 days. At least then you didn't need to herd a stampede of sub-projects to get a working X11 compiled.
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