John Morris wrote:
It doesn't. And nobody cares, go buy hardware that works the way Pottering imagines it 'should' work is the closest you will get to real world advice. It doesn't actually exist mind you, so you can't really buy it. You will just have to imagine how wonderful it would be. It is insane, it has been insane now for several years and is only getting worse by the day. And when the insanity in one subsystem, after years of pain, finally begins to subside it will be rubbished and rebuilt from scratch again. Meh.
It is so frustrating to hear people complaining about pulseaudio like this. Pulseaudio is an amazing improvement for the use of sound on Linux. For 99% of users, it just works like it should. I love how software mixing just works and I can easily switch between output devices and it even keeps separate volume settings for each device. For example, when I turn off the active bluetooth headset, the sound automatically switches back to the internal speakers without interrupting the application. But it is just a layer on top of ALSA, so you still have the tools you had before to mess with the sound card settings (like alsamixer). In the cases where pulseaudio doesn't work, it's usually an ALSA bug or specialized audio cards which tend to come with their own control software anyways. Either way, file a bug report instead of writing off the whole thing just because it doesn't work for you.
Yes, there is usually some initial pain when major subsystems like audio or init get changed, but in the end, the result is so much better.
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