PulseAudio is shit.

slackware used to be good

>>60655038
>post about slack a year ago
>lol old packages
>lol ur old
>now there are daily slackware shitposting threads

>>60655038
>I don't know how to use pulseaudio so it's shit
Really?

>>60655038
>find out pulseaudio is now a required package and a basic system component
seriously ? it's not even required by debian

after being broken for like 10 years pulseaudio is finally usable, so give it a try.

>>60655038
You reminded me about myself several years ago.

>Happy Ubuntu users
>All hardware just works, even fiio amp+dac
>Ubanto mades the change to pulseaudio
>Audio equipment no longer works
>Went back to Windows

Even today, it still doesn't work, even though several years ago it worked flawlessly just with ALSA.

>>60655151
Pulseaudio is a hard dependency for Firefox if you want your browser to have sound.

This is how cancerous the Linux desktop is these days. There is no "real" choice. You either use lennartware or you fuck off.

>>60655208
to be fair, pulseaudio does it's job well (finally, i know how fucking broken it was for years like everything poettering produced) and is the default audio server for most distros, so you can't blame the firefox devs for not wanting to deal with alsa directly or for not supporting jack, esd, oss, ...

>>60655038
when i got into 14.2 I just removed pulse along with alsa and installed OSS4

fuck this shit

>>60655208
>what are gentoo use flags

>install pulseaudio on arch
>works fine for a while
>get a bluetooth USB adapter and set it up
>pulse shits itself for some reason and never quite recovers right
>spend days reading wiki pages and forum posts, learning more than anyone should about audio hardware and audio kernel modules
>end up writing a cron job to kill pulseaudio every hour and restart it

audiod when?

>>60655208

They aren't opposed to having it, they just dont want to maintain it anymore. If you really hated pulse that much maybe you should contribute :^)

>>60657629
I don't think mozilla accepts code contributions from white males.

>>60657586
>end up writing a cron job to kill pulseaudio every hour and restart it
Jesus Christ how horrifying

>>60657684
did you seriously expect something else from an arch fag ?

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>>60655038
To all faggots saying pulseaudio is fine,

Enjoy DOD/NSA/CIA listening to you.

>Having audio stack connected to network standalone.
>That being not fishy at all.
>[CURRENT_YEAR]

>>60657929
It's so that you can tunnel audio to other pulse servers. I use it to play sound from my laptop out of my desktops speakers.

>>60657992
>ITT NSA : pinky promise it's only for "your" pulse servers.
>Pinky promise : It's not transfering anything to the central server in Langley.

cool man, keep up the good work.

Blame bluez.
They dropped ALSA support in the new version.

Default config uses ALSA. It only loads pulse on demand for things that need it.

>>60657541
This. Gentoo is the only long term solution to this. Rev up those catalyst servers and prepare to get an install iso, time to install it, fags.

>>60658231
devuan is the future

>try and use alsa without pulseaudio on my newest install
>once in a while one application would break and make a "loudest video on youtube"x2 demonic sound until I closed it down
>installed pulseaudio
>haven't happened once again
pulseaudio is the savior

>>60655038
>server OS
>audio is shit

you don't say

>>60658231
A legit use case for installing Gentoo!

I might have to do that once Gentoo is properly packaged for noobs.

Gentu, anyone? (runs)

>>60658421
>shitposts on /g/
>has no idea what he's talking about

you don't say

>>60657541
This. I see distros like Gentoo as the future because compile times are no longer an issue like it used to be because hardware is now capable enough.
Few years ago I tried gentoo but these would take all day to compile, but now:
genlop -t firefox gcc libreoffice
* www-client/firefox
merge time: 11 minutes and 10 seconds.
* sys-devel/gcc
merge time: 11 minutes and 29 seconds.
* app-office/libreoffice *
merge time: 56 minutes and 8 seconds.
*btw I compiled libreoffice with MAKEOPT=-j4 while the others where MAKEOPT=-j9

>>60658492
i'm pretty sure most distros have their own ports implementation just like gentoo

>>60658110
Dude, just look through the code. If you see anything fishy report it.

Slackware releases last like 20 years anyway just use an ancient release

>>60658828
You don't get security patches with older releases.

>>60657541
Sorry to be a dumb noob here but can you expand on this? I'm having issues with pulseaudio in xubuntu and would like to try this.

>>60658594
Really? Tell me how I can use USE flags on Debian, Fedora, OpenSuse, etc?

>$HOME is on nfs
>go to S3 sleep, wake up hours later
>the pulseaudio daemon can't handle not accessing its cookie file within a few seconds and dies leaving processes without sound
systemwide daemon would work of course, but that was discouraged (wouldn't surprise me if that option have been removed by now)

it's the same story with bridging jackd/jackd2, even with no slow network filesystems involved.

rather than making pulse more robust people just tell you to 'pulseaudio --kill and relaunch the daemon
it's like how rebooting windows was the first thing you should always try. it's disgusting seeing Lennart & co. trying to make linux worse.
I'll take pure alsa over this any day.

pulseaudio is good though

>>60658110

Your web browser is connecting to the internet. You should uninstall it.

The Apple Macbook Pro with Retina Display doesn't have this problem.

>>60660205
https://github.com/zonque/PulseAudioOSX

>>60659959

mkdir /gentoo
install_gentoo.sh /gentoo
chroot into gentoo
use gentoo

>>60659959
>Tell me how I can use USE flags on Debian,
apt-build

> Fedora, OpenSuse, etc
rpmbuild, but i've never used it, so not sure how good/bad it is

Does ALSA have per application sound controls? Honest question.

>>60660355
No, but OSS does..

>>60660377
So people that use ALSA use ALSA and OSS? How does that work? I don't really understand Linux audio.

>>60660377
hasn't OSS been dead for 10 years now ?

>>60660417
No, they're mutually exclusive.

>>60660418
Nope.

>>60657586
>install wangblows
>works fine
>get Bluetooth USB and set it up
>it works fine
>dont spend days reading wikis
>end up with a Bluetooth USB that just works

>>60660468
Did that change?
Barely any bluetooth shit works on Windows 7 without third-party stuff.

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>>60655038
Yup, Slackware died in early 2016. Shame.

Void, Crux, gentoo and LFS are reasonable solutions now.

>>60655038
Learn to use pacmd