On 21 Dec 2008, Colin Guthrie verbalised: > Per-user mode is usually the way to go and should be the default on > Ubunutu (as far as i know). This mode allows proper integration info the > console-kit for knowing which user is active (e.g. if you loging > 1 > user at a time) and thus grants and denies access to the sound hardware > as appropriate. It's also noticeably more efficient, because it doesn't need to stream the data over a local network socket to get it to the daemon, but can simply push it into a shared memory region.