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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Pottering is also the person behind pulseaudio, an powerful but complex audio management daemon in Linux whose name you only recognize because it’s caused you no end of trouble. Pulseaudio was also replaced relatively quickly by pipewire.

Powerful? No, JACK is more powerful and was created 2 years before pulseaudio.

For context back then OSS was primary audio api, and unlike ALSA it did not have software mixing. So sound servers were created. Lots of sound servers, so it was and still it yet another sound server without extra functionality. Meanwhile dmix existed since at least 2001 and JACK allowed route output of one application to input of another.

At least pottering is working for Microsoft, ruining windows now…

You know what? I wich him luck.