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Re:Making Sense of the Audio Stack on Unix by dijit on Monday February 08, 2021 @12:59AM (#26061269)
Pulses reason for existing was that ALSA couldn’t handle multiple sources running at the same time _yet_.

It was always on the table though and now it has been implemented. That’s why there’s significant overlap, those projects are not complementary, they are somewhat competitive.

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Re:Making Sense of the Audio Stack on Unix by oilbagz on Monday February 08, 2021 @04:01AM (#26062231)
Whenever given the opportunity, I immediately yank PulseAudio and replace it with a properly configured JACK+Alsa rig. This happens mostly on the workstations of musician friends who think they are being clever by using an enterprise Linux distro like RedHat, instead of an audio-specific distro like kxStudio or UbuntuStudio - the former is guaranteed to be a headache, the latter is smoother than anything else out there ..
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