25 Oct
2014
25 Oct
'14
6:26 p.m.
On 10/25/2014 05:55 PM, Will Godfrey wrote:
OK final results. I've had to make the following
adjustments to the figures.
[..]
So we have:
Audio
ALSA 6%
JACK 74%
Either 18%
Other 2% (both referring to Alsa, Jack and Pulse)
MIDI
ALSA 23%
JACK 26%
Either 44%
Other 7% ( 6 didn't use MIDI and the 7th mentioned a2j)
How many votes have there been in total? Is it a significant part of the
community that does not correlate with Applications? (eg qtractor has no
jack-midi support, or ardour3 only jack-midi support, skype on linux
only offers pulseaudio)
General the choice of API is not made by the user, but dictated by the
application(s) a user uses. Hence I don't see how this survey is
meaningful by itself. Still interesting though.
[..]
From this I think we can conclude that direct use of
ALSA is far from
dead yet
You can not *conclude* that just from the results presented. That's not
how statistics works, but well, it's good enough for the marketing dept.
nonetheless :)
If I can remember, I might try this again in a years
time.
If so, the please consider leaving the survey run longer. At least a
week, best a month.
I just read your call for participation only to find this result email a
bit further down in my Inbox. Though that's my fault for not keeping up
LAU on a on day-by-day basis.
Cheers!
robin