Steve Litt <slitt@???> writes:
> Rainer Weikusat <rainerweikusat@???> wrote:
>> Emiliano Marini <emilianomarini82@???> writes:
>> > Word from Eric Hameleers, one of the main Slackware maintainers (AKA
>> > alienbob):
>> >
>> >> "...you have to have PA installed because applications are now
>> >> linking against it. What you can still do is configure PA to be an
>> >> input channel for ALSA and leave ALSA to control your hardware.
>> >> But generally speaking I would not recommend that unless you have
>> >> high audio quality standards (being a musician or an audiophile)
>> >> in which case you should look at Jackd anyway instead of just ALSA
>> >> or PA.
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> This is actually really remarkable statement. I understand this
>> basically as "If you don't really care about audio quality, pulseaudio
>> is surely good enough for you", IOW, "despite pulseaudio is anything
>> but good at doing the job it's supposed to be used for, it's surely
>> sufficient for 'consumers'".
>
> In all fairness, I've found few softwares as difficult to install and
> get right as Jack. In fact, of the five times I've tried to install it
> on various distros, I've succeeded zero times.
>
> So I'd settle for Pulse (or ALSA or OSS) over Jack simply because I can
> actually get those installed.

I didn't mean this as a statement about PulseAudio vs Jack, especially
since the only 'audio' I need from my computer is what's necessary for
Doom, but about the attitude behind this statement: "If your
requirements are so primitive that they can be satisfied without
$complicated_audio_middleware, just shut up and be happy that you can
hear something at all".