[toast0]

> And regarding Poettering's response[2] (not trying to start a fight): It's Poettering, what do you expect? You can hate or love systemd, but part of why people hate it is his intellectual arrogance in everything he does.

I don't think it's just his arrogance, it's that it's not backed up by substance. Linus is an arrogant prick, yeah? But his kernel works pretty well, so he gets some slack. All pulseaudio ever did for me was waste my time and break my ability to output sound. Systemd wastes my time, makes my computer work different for no reason that's apparent to me, and now makes it easy for me to brick my machine if I'm not careful and I have a terrible bios[1].

[1] I've yet to meet a bios that isn't terrible, although hopefully few are terrible in this specific way.

[aidenn0]

I disagree with Poettering's technical decisions more often than I agree with them, but to be fair, some of PA is because the distros adopted it early. Heck, when Ubunutu picked it up the readme still described it as something along the lines of "The server that breaks your audio system."