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    For one thing, I know I used to have a problem where if programA used the soundcard, programB couldn't use it until programA was closed. Even if programA were no longer using it. In my case, that sort of thing went away as soon as pulseaudio came about. Perhaps I could have configured ALSA or OSS to also allow multiple programs access to the soundcard but I'd never figured out how. Commented Dec 14, 2015 at 18:51
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    They (pulseaudio) thought the solution to the many audiosystems on linux was to create yet another audiosystem. Commented Dec 14, 2015 at 19:14
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    If this was a system that could emulate the others or if it had a simpler interface, it as the solution. It seems that this was not achieved. Commented Dec 15, 2015 at 10:27
  • It's like network-manager and resolvd. Useless and annoying changes to linux that add unnecessary middleware between you and the underlying linux applications / configs. PA and Network-Manager are the first things i uninstall when i install linux. I also delete the symlink /etc/resolv.conf and replace it with the proper file that should be there. Commented Apr 23, 2022 at 2:19