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Re:Linus: “I no longer feel like I can trust ‘init’ to do th... by aexaey on Monday July 10, 2017 @05:41AM (#14734540)
Very much this. The only big change with pa in last few years is - applications accepted and embraced it - to the point of dropping OSS & ALSA.
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Re:Linus: “I no longer feel like I can trust ‘init’ to do th... by ZenoArrow on Monday July 10, 2017 @08:21AM (#14735242)
I personally hope Linux application developers support PipeWire as it becomes available so that the usability issues around low-latency audio in Linux can be sorted out (i.e. it works out of the box):

https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2017/06/20/fedora-workstation...

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Re:Linus: “I no longer feel like I can trust ‘init’ to do th... by digi_owl on Monday July 10, 2017 @01:13PM (#14737804)
I really hate seeing how Firefox on Linux is spiraling the drain in this regard. First GTK3, then PA.

There really is a changing of the guard in Linux userspace, and the change is for the worse.

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