Hello:

On 12 Feb 2024 at 12:28, Haines Brown via Dng wrote:

> Is its replacement with PulseAudo a good idea?
Pulseaudio is *poetteringware*.
ie: no, not a good idea.

As always, YMMV.

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kashchei on Feb 9, 2014
Debian committee members vote for systemd as init system

I have to remind everyone that the author of systemd is Lennart
Poettering, the guy behind Pulseaudio. I think, this is one "feature"
that should outweigh all supposed benefits of this program.

For those unfamiliar with Pulseaudio development, it's a
third-generation audio subsystem (after OSS and ALSA with JACK
forming two previous ones, and ESD being the beginning of the third)
that is famous for overcomplicated, non-human-writable barely
human-readable configuration procedure, development marred with huge
number of bugs that ruined audio on Linux until recently, and
suffering from immense number of internal interfaces and system being
presented as a huge monolithic piece of software that can not be used
in a modular manner except as modules that only talk among
themselves.

systemd seems to suffer from the same problems, plus it tries to
"integrate" init, udev and syslog into a single "product", with
arcane internal interfaces and formats -- just as non-human-writable
as Pulseaudio.

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Best,