[jeshin]

Agent Poettering, welcome back. You've done tremendous work for us.

*I actually don't care strongly about systemd one way or the other but couldn't resist the joke

[wooque]

I don't know why the hate, both systemd and Pulseaudio are great, at least better than what was before them and improved Linux desktop quite a bit.

[hulitu]

Maybe for you. For me pulseaudion brought only problems. And the additional daemons did not bring any improvement (i don't use gnome or kde).

[bayindirh]

Pulseaudio created a lot of pain when it first arrived, since it had a ton of teething problems. It doesn't have logical defaults even today.

However, Pipewire just worked without any problems and smoothly the day it landed.

[boffinAudio]

Just, no. Pulseaudio legitimately screwed up Audio on Linux for years and is a major source of headaches, even still today, for anyone trying to do audio properly on Linux.

Thank FNORD for Pipewire, meanwhile.

[lathiat]

Did you actually use Linux audio before pulse audio?

It sure was great only using sound from one application at once.

[kasabali]

I did, and contrary to unfounded meme, this was actually possible before PulseAudio was introduced.

[boffinAudio]

Used JACK extensively before Pulseaudio came along .. never had any issue with it that Pulseaudio would solve.

[lwswl]

Of course having audio switch when you switch applications has its benefits as well...

[em-bee]

double agent poettering. you are to remain quiet in your new position until you receive the call to activate.

[yakak]

Due to an unforseen DBUS on WSL bug, we never were able to activate our double agent.

[IYasha]

On the contrary: DBUS queue was never cleared and the agent kept receiving activation signals over and over unil overflowed ))

[em-bee]

now that's just great. now he is hyperactive and needs meds to calm down.