Timeline for Why do you need PulseAudio?
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| Apr 23, 2022 at 2:24 | comment | added | Owl | @sezanzeb, given a choice between having to use PA for firefox, i'm just going to stop using firefox and find something else. | |
| Apr 23, 2022 at 2:16 | comment | added | Owl | I had this weird problem with pulse audio, basically for some reason it was changing my volume levels when i switched application. Anyway this one day it got confused about which application i was using and turned the volume to 100% and damaged a load of audio equipment. After that i uninstalled PA, and never looked back. | |
| Sep 6, 2020 at 9:46 | comment | added | sezanzeb | @DominicCerisano the issue is possibly that various applications need pulseaudio libraries, so it's not entirely up to the distros. Firefox had ALSA support disabled completely at some point and Terraria also didn't work without it. | |
| Jan 1, 2019 at 0:37 | comment | added | Birkensox | WTaF. Then why do distros still enable the pulseaudio multiplexing daemon? It is laggy, buggy AF and has been the culprit behind too many sound problems! I disable the daemon rather than uninstalling the entire package, since there are dependencies with ALSA configuration, which the package does seem to do well. | |
| Mar 22, 2018 at 11:37 | comment | added | klogd | Just had this popping problem, uninstalled pulseaudio and now everything sounds fine (playing from multiple sources works great as well). Alsa driver 4.4.0-104, utils 1.1.0 | |
| Jul 1, 2016 at 4:32 | review | Late answers | |||
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| Jul 1, 2016 at 4:16 | history | answered | user4674453 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |