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Re:PulseAudio and Systemd Creator, Lennart Poettering, Repor... by corrral on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @04:52PM (#31993540)
So why's no-one mad at any other init or audio daemon authors? Poettering just had bad luck?
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Re:PulseAudio and Systemd Creator, Lennart Poettering, Repor... by kaba0 on Wednesday July 06, 2022 @01:11PM (#32003894)
Because there is no other* that actually works properly to even get half as popular?

* there is now pipewire which will hopefully overtake pulseaudio though

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Re:PulseAudio and Systemd Creator, Lennart Poettering, Repor... by corrral on Wednesday July 06, 2022 @01:25PM (#32004066)
There were popular audio daemons before PulseAudio took over, though. It's not like it entered a completely empty "market", if you will. Nobody was mad at the authors of those, even though in fact they did also suck. Nobody seems upset over Pipewire.

So I don't think you've found the reason.

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