On Sat, Jun 02, 2018 at 07:44:39AM -0400, Paul Davis wrote: > The Pulse audio API was never intended to be used by applications. Then why does it exist ? :-) The API doesn't look worse than ALSA's user space 'plug' mess which never worked well except in some simple cases (try stacking a few 'plugs' and keep the result stable). BTW, Firefox seems to have gone the same way as Skype. What I *do* find disturbing re. the way Linux seems to be going is all those 'kits' and other stuff meant to replace existing system functionality. Who needs rtkit if we have limits.conf, or policykit if we have sudo ? And the worst of all is systemd. It was a nice idea originally. Meanwhile there are something like 60 binaries, many of them replacing things that have nothing at all to do with system init or service management, and hundreds of entangled unit files all over the place, plus 'builtin' and 'generated' ones and what else is happening behind your back. It has become near impossible to find out what your system is actually up to. A few weeks ago I installed Devuan (Debian fork wihout systemd) on two laptops. A very refreshing experience. Some orders of magnitude simpler. As a user you don't notice any difference and it start up faster than systemd. And for me, as admin of those systems, things have become a lot more transparent. Ciao, -- FA _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
