3 engineers on Hacker News describe using PulseAudio first-hand: 0 endorse it, 3 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“Pulseaudio was a debacle, so I used ALSA since like forever and could do great things with it.”
regret · personal · lloeki · 2024-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the unnecessary problems that PulseAudio and systemd have thrown up over the years”
regret · personal · laumars · 2014-10-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“in the Pulseaudio release I had to have "killall pulseaudio" bound to a hotkey because it shat itself so often”
regret · personal · acabal · 2012-09-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?