[LAU] YAPD (Yet Another Pulseaudio Debate) [WAS]: Re: Diagnosing JACK

I'm always weary about jumping into Pulseaudio (and systemd...) debates as they always seem to fuel feuds... so I I thought I'd change the subject line and uninterested people can skip.. On 10/10/2015 01:39, Ralf Mardorf wrote: In my humble opinion, it's actually right and adheres to a principle of using a more advanced sound server for more advanced audio/music scenarios (and software) and a 'deskop-oriented' server for desktop scenarios. As with all solution the ideal is when different pieces of technology dealing with similar content/media/things (in this case audio) are able to interact / live together. In my case my audio machine has always also been my 'desktop' machine - just because - and jack / pulseaudio interaction has never been a big issue. The issues I have (had) with pulsaudio are always related to its interaction with 'legacy' alsa-only applications (e.g. the xfce mixer). My point of view is that Pulseaudio has actually made linux audio (in a broad meaning) more easy, more usable and more configurable than e.g. on windows (the control you get with pavcontrol is magnitudes higher and more intuitive than a windows 'mixer'). I see jack as the more advanced linux audio layer which most users can easily ignore. For me it's like extreme gamer-oriened graphics (hardware and software)... I can't really be botherd as long as I can use gimp, inkscape, pingus, and watch a video smoothly I'm happy with my graphics :-) The jack paradigm (connect any audio application to any other audio application) is really powerful (and personally one of the reasons which drew me to Linux). Yet it is just a bit more complicated to set-up, especially for users coming from other operating systems, but I wouldn't blame pulseaudio for that - actually there's no one to 'blame'... Lorenzo.