I seem to recall the only times I've experienced problems with jack is when
I didn't have proper user/group definitions in place, and/or had improper
patch connections. For some reason user/group settings never get defined
just right when installing jackd, regardless of distro. I think it also
defaults to manual startup on install. And then there's the patchbay,
beauty to those who love extreme customization, and bane for others who
would just like to hear fluidsynth play a midi without spending two hours
reading doc and forum posts to figure out how to make that happen.

Even so, none of that is insurmountable, it just needs a bit of polish, and
maybe some optional patchbay automation for typical setups. It's always
been solid for me once properly configured.
Jack is the shizzle fo' rizzle. +1 on replacing No-PulseAudio with it.

SWS
On Jan 23, 2015 9:34 AM, "Steve Litt" <slitt@???> wrote:

> On Fri, 23 Jan 2015 11:16:08 +0100
> "Javier Ortega Conde (Malkavian)" <malkavian666@???> wrote:
>
> > Hi Sean:
> >
> > > I would love to see jack as a default or as an optional package
> > > with sane defaults. If pulse is really needed,it works as a jack
> > > client. I have to kill -9 pulse frequently as it leaks badly and
> > > won't die; jack only goes crazy when I misconfigure it.
> > >
> > I would love to to have Jack as default. I use it in my personal
> > computer and it works like a charm.
>
> Guys, in the past I've tried to get Jack running about four or five
> times, and never succeeded. This included the sound studio version of
> Ubuntu. I'm sure that Jack is perfect for the dedicated sound
> enthusiast, but for the average guy, Jack just might be the only thing
> that could cause more failure than Pulse. Jack is very, very
> complicated.
>
> SteveT
>

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