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by rexicus 3385 days ago
> I've never had issues with ALSA

You haven't been acquainted with asoundrc/dmix/alsamixer. ALSA is to Pulse as XFree86 is to Xorg, I feel no nostalgia for it at all.
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kasabali 3383 days ago
> ALSA is to Pulse as XFree86 is to Xorg, I feel no nostalgia for it at all.

No it is not. X.org is a fork of XFree86. Pulseaudio is a sound daemon built on top of ALSA.

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digi_owl 3382 days ago
And there are times i wish i could roll back the clock to the XFree86 days. At least then you didn't need to herd a stampede of sub-projects to get a working X11 compiled.
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