• katze@lemmy.4d2.org
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    In fact I thought it was so wonderful how you could hear multiple applications at the same time!

    That was possible with ALSA and the “dmix” plugin years before pulseaudio came out.

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      Alright. Nothing I knew about at the time.

      Still it worked really well for me, and the experience I have is basically that a working system (pulse) was replaced by another (pipe). Must’ve been lucky.

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        Yeah. I’ve been using Linux for at least 20 too

        Things like pulse audio also exposed a lot of driver bugs in audio hardware. In fact, in Windows, I discovered my awe64 was massively slowing down my system

        I suspect some people are confusing the issues with windows 7 too though, where some people also had audio issues initially

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            18 hours ago

            Not all of when of course, but I seem to remember it was a factor. But it was so long ago now

            Windows also had a lot of similar accusations at the time too