Hello. IMHO this is because PulseAudio is somewhat buggy to go into polished distributions. I hardly could use it on Arch Linux, and I am accustomed to general Arch Linux's instability. (Arch Linux is bleeding-edge by definition.) Distributions jumped to PulseAudio too soon. Also, the developers of PulseAudio could split the source code into stable and trunk branches. On 14.04.12 22:03, Paul Menzel wrote: > Although during the last years PulseAudio is doing its job pretty well, > there are still quite some people out there thinking it is a mess. And > indeed looking at the Debian bug tracking system [1] a lot of bugs are > reported there. There are 145 reports [2] most of them concerning > upstream things. Since for a long time, Debian did not package the > latest PulseAudio version, I guess a lot of them are fixed already. > > Debian?s large user base experienced a lot of these problems and > therefore disabled PulseAudio and have not tried newer versions.
