Linus: “I no longer feel like I can trust ‘init’ to do the sane thing”

Re:Linus: “I no longer feel like I can trust ‘init’ to do th... by BeetleB on Monday July 10, 2017 @01:01AM (#14733485)

I tried installing it a few months ago, and... could not get any sound. Similar experience several years ago. I'm sure I could Google and fix, but for me, it did not "just work".

Don't get me wrong. For years, ALSA was a pain. But in the last 10 years, ALSA has always "just worked" for me. I think the only time I had to fiddle with ALSA in the last decade was to get the mic on a headset to work.

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Re:Linus: “I no longer feel like I can trust ‘init’ to do th... by jhasse on Monday July 10, 2017 @02:41AM (#14733846)

For me, "Just Works" includes me not having to install it at all, not it being easy to set-up on LFS. Pulseaudio is pre-installed on Fedora, Ubuntu, etc.

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Re:Linus: “I no longer feel like I can trust ‘init’ to do th... by boomboomsubban on Monday July 10, 2017 @10:07AM (#14736012)

ALSA is part of the kernel, it's likely been pre-installed in every Linux you have ever run. It's not a mark against it that you choose to install distros developed to use pulseaudio.

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Re:Linus: “I no longer feel like I can trust ‘init’ to do th... by BeetleB on Monday July 10, 2017 @10:16AM (#14736107)

Well, that's almost what I had. It didn't come preinstalled, but it's in the package manager. I installed it, and, no sound.

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