Why is ALSA being garbage right now?

Pulseaudio is even bigger garbage, at least with alsa I don't have a cracking mic input...

Ever since PulseAudio became the norm on popular distros like Ubuntu, nobody compiles their binaries for ALSA anymore thus shit breaks if you don't use PulseAudio

Example:
https://github.com/crmarsh/discord-linux-bugs/issues/16

>>55014878
i still don't understand what is pulseaudio and why can't it be just one ALSA
t. OSS user

>>55014900
Pulseaudio is working fine, apart from the error messages it's giving me about ALSA, which is why I say it's garbage

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>now
wew lad

>>55014922
install gentoo

ITT: people that have no fucking clue what pulse or alsa are

>>55014922
literally wut

this is so nonsensical

pulse and alsa are not interchangeable, one does not replace the other

>>55015079
I'm not saying it replaces ALSA. I'm saying when a program is designed to interact with the sound server which then interacts with ALSA, it will encounter problems when it is directly interacting with ALSA. Which is the case with Discord, for example (as a result of webrtc)

>>55014959
Error messages in question:

ALSA lib pcm_dsnoop.c:618:(snd_pcm_dsnoop_open) unable to open slave

ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1022:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave

ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1022:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave

ALSA lib pcm.c:2239:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.rear

ALSA lib pcm.c:2239:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.center_lfe

ALSA lib pcm.c:2239:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.side

ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1022:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave