Derek Smithies wrote:
For those of you who do not know, pulse stands for "pathetic useless linux sound engineers".
Well - that explains a lot. Sound is not something I care about too much. I don't want to stream audio across the network or anything - I just have a couple of desktop speakers and now a microphone to use with Skype. Audio just drives me nuts. I seem to need to change the settings every time I want to use it. Alert sounds are either so soft I can't hear them or they blast out at a volume that makes me jump off my chair. Everything uses a different audio control in the mixer panel - I suppose I should go find out what PCM, LFE and MUX stand for. But really - should I need to? I'm not running a mixing desk or anything. With my Windows and Mac machines, everything just works. I don't remember having had an issue. Well, not since Win95.
now, the pulse people say that ubuntu failed cause they say ubuntu did not "read the source enough and participate etc etc.." Rubbish. The simple truth is that the pulse people failed to document and write usable front ends.
The other thing about Pulse is people will post a question - basic pulse features aren't working, how do I fix it? - and they'll get a reply saying pulse is better and it can do all this other stuff. Yeah - well, some people think beta max was better, even though people had to change tapes half way through a movie. In the mean time, don't skype me - I use Linux.
Maybe it is time to do a fresh install and rid myself of all the fixes and tweaks I have made - see if using the defaults works. And get rid of the beta and other software I promise myself I'll only install into a VM next time :-) Don
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