[LAU] Pulseaudio, Dave's Ubuntu review....

[Rob]

>All Ubuntu users (GNome) seems to do all kind of hacks to remove or
>disable pulseaudio. Also Dave names it as a solution to work with
>pulseaudio on Ubuntu Studio.
>AFAIK you can solve this whole thing by:
>$ pasuspender qjackctl

Fair enough, but by the time I go "pasuspender firefox" and "pasuspender 
virtualbox" and pasuspender all the other programs I use that cause 
Pulseaudio to use 100% of my CPU and stutter madly while causing no similar 
problems using plain Alsa (or JACK, when it's supported), I've accomplished 
the same thing as "sudo mv /usr/bin/pulseaudio 
/usr/bin/pulseaudio.disabled; sudo ln -s /bin/false /usr/bin/pulseaudio; 
killall pulseaudio" which I only have to do once.

>If I'm right, we should find new ways to prevent having all those myths

Pulseaudio performing poorly for many people is not a myth.  I look forward 
to the day when PA provides solid playback performance, low latency and 
automagically sends my audio to all my other machines.  In the meantime, 
it's as useless as esd or artsd and much more of a hog.  There's no need 
for me to report bugs because eliminating it is exactly as useful to me as 
getting the bugs fixed.  I have Alsa's built-in mixing for multiplexing 
audio of mainstream apps, JACK as a necessary evil for real audio apps, and 
for the once in 3 or 4 years that I want to share audio between machines, 
icecast.  PA is a scratch in need of an itch.

Rob