I love the work of the ArchWiki maintainers

Re:I love the work of the ArchWiki maintainers by VorpalWay on Sunday February 15, 2026 @03:38AM (#47022061)

Could be. I don't remember Arch being on my radar at that point though. But it wasn't long after I switched from Gentoo to Arch (and then Debian for a decade due to lack of stability before going back to Arch 7 years ago or so).

A few years before the Xorg thing there was also the 2.4 to 2.6 kernel switchover. I think I maybe was using Slackware at that point, and I remember building my own kernel to try out the new shiny thing. You also had to update some userspace packages if I remember correctly: things like modprobe/insmod at the very least.

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Re:I love the work of the ArchWiki maintainers by ofalkaed on Sunday February 15, 2026 @03:57AM (#47022166)

2.6 was also the switch from OSS to Alsa, which caused some fun, Alsa really was not ready for prime time.

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Re:I love the work of the ArchWiki maintainers by VorpalWay on Sunday February 15, 2026 @04:12AM (#47022259)

Oh yeah, you just unlocked a forgotten memory. I was actually lucky there, I had a SoundBlaster Live 5.1 which worked just fine on ALSA (hardware mixing even worked out of the box). But I remember lots of other people complaining on IRC about it.

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Re:I love the work of the ArchWiki maintainers by doubled112 on Monday February 16, 2026 @07:19PM (#47042089)

And once ALSA was working pretty well for me, PulseAudio came too soon.

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