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Re:Knoppix 8.6 abandons systemd by jacquesm on Sunday September 01, 2019 @10:46AM (#20852542)
Unless you use your computer for more than just consumption and you find out that latency wise pulseaudio absolutely sucks. And then you install jack, a bridge from pulse to jack and a whole raft of other fixes to be able to use the same desktop for regular work and audio work.

My main gripe with anything from that group of people is that they refuse to play nice with others, and by extension that their code refuses to work properly with code produced by others.

Re:Knoppix 8.6 abandons systemd by alex7o on Sunday September 01, 2019 @12:30PM (#20853122)
When don't we just use jack without pulse audio, most programs support it (VLC,MPV).
Re:Knoppix 8.6 abandons systemd by jacquesm on Sunday September 01, 2019 @01:51PM (#20853599)
Firefox doesn't. They dropped all other audio systems except for pulse! Highly annoying.
Re:Knoppix 8.6 abandons systemd by degraafc on Sunday September 01, 2019 @09:50PM (#20856213)
This is just my own experience, but sound works fine for me with just Alsa (no pulseaudio or apulse). Although even the Arch Wiki [1] says differently.

[1]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Firefox#Multimedia_play...

Re:Knoppix 8.6 abandons systemd by jacquesm on Monday September 02, 2019 @04:07AM (#20857502)
It is likely that you have some kind of pulse bridge running without being aware of it. For instance Carla will do that without telling you about it.