Karel Zak wrote:
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 12:48:57PM -0400, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 17:40 +0100, Bill Crawford wrote:
>> If you have multi-channel hardware that mixes itself, then using
>> PulseAudio sort of defeats the purpose of that hardware ;o)
> You're absolutely right... if all you're using PulseAudio for is basic
> mixing. But as soon as you need/want something like per-app volume
> control, network transport, audio stream redirection, or audio device
> hotplugging then you want PulseAudio.
How many **ordinary** Fedora users really need these **advanced**
features?
For example I have never had any serious SW problem with sound on
Linux. And I use it for more than 10 years...
Quite a few need network transport when you talk about thinclient. It's
made worse by the fact that in many of those situations you have a whole
bunch of extremely ordinary Fedora users to a small number of
entry-level-knowledge admins.
-Toshio