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Have you ever been disappointed with Linux?
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During the early days of Pulse Audio. Sound sometimes would stop working for inexplicable reasons.
Before Pulse Audio sound on Linux was literally lame.
ALSA works better than Pulse Audio. Fite me irl
Sometimes I have to set audio to ALSA with protontricks in order for a game to launch or have sound. I think it has something to do with the number of audio channels I have. With other audio interfaces with only two channels it doesn't seem to be an issue but I thought my ALSA/JACK combo was solid but I also only played native games back then so I'm not sure if it would have been an issue then. Pulse took me a while too be comfortable with but for the most part I'm happy with it now. I held out for so long and waited for other audio producers to give it a green light before I switched.
BTW, I'm not trying to fight you on this. Just sharing my experience with someone who understands the struggle.
Sound was literally dysfunctional in Linux on a lot of hardware in the 90s. In the mid 2000s I had a RedHat enthusiast tell me that was all in the past, about 20 minutes before we hit a nasty hard to fix sound configuration/performance problem with RedHat on our hardware... Our "sound guy" can make ALSA work on our product, but it's one of the more brittle parts of the system - anything changes he "has to get back with you..."