David Robillard: Well, in my opinion, everything really is fantastic right now. Pulseaudio interacts perfectly with jack, pulseaudio doesn't screw up jack in any way (as far as I can remember observing), and all programs using jack, alsa or pulseaudio make sound, simultaneously, without any notable latencies issues with alsa programs. Maybe I was lucky, and I'm probably not a newbie either, but at least I'm not _pretending_ everything is fantastic: it really is. A person coming directly from win/mac probably wouldn't have succeeded though, since jack needed to be configured and I had to manually install the pulseaudio jack sink, edit various files in /etc/, plus perhaps doing other stuff I don't remember anymore.