> Thank you for this awareness! :-) happy_gnu is right that you probably want pulseaudio. However, it might be a worth a shot to temporarily remove it along with any config files that could be causing the problem, and then adding things back in one at a time.
Try removing pulseaudio with $ sudo apt purge pulseaudio Unlike 'apt remove', 'apt purge' gets rid of config files, so if there's something wrong with your configuration this will give us a clean slate. Then reboot, and see if the slow startup issue is fixed. If it is, reinstall pulseaudo, $ sudo apt install pulseaudio and run it in a terminal. $ pulseaudio If the the terminal hangs instead of prompting you to enter a new command, that's good. It means that pulseaudio is running. Try playing something in vlc, playing something in abrowser, and adjusting volume settings. If anything goes wrong, see if an error message appears in the terminal. You might be missing the volume applet in your panel or something like that, in which case it was likely removed as a reverse dependency of pulseaudio. That's fine for now. Just see if vlc/abrowser/etc work. If everything seems okay, reboot again and see if you have sound (1) at the login screen and (2) after logging in. If you do not, add or reselect pulseaudio in Startup Applications and try again. Once/if pulseaudio is starting on login and working normally, add back in any utilities that got removed when we removed pulseaudio by reinstalling the trisquel and trisquel-recommended metapackages $ sudo apt install trisquel trisquel-recommended
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