On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 8:35 PM, Roman Beslik <rabeslik at gmail.com> wrote: > 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. Instability? I'm not sure which Arch Linux you use, but mine is fine, with pulseaudio (and without gnome) as well.... Extrapolating a single user's experiences to a distribution or project is hardly indicative, and Arch offers you a choice on using pulse or not (Gnome doesn't, but that's another story).