Firefox 52.0

Posted Mar 13, 2017 15:44 UTC (Mon) by anselm (subscriber, #2796)
In reply to: Firefox 52.0 by pizza
Parent article: Firefox 52.0

It doesn't matter how well PulseAudio works today. It does solve real-world problems that people have, and in my experience it is fine. (For example, my mobile phone uses it and has no problems moving audio streams between the device and a Bluetooth headset even in mid-call.) There was, however, a time when PulseAudio (on Ubuntu) worked really badly, mostly due to bugs in the underlying ALSA drivers, and even though that wasn't really PulseAudio's fault in the first place it gets trotted out again and again whenever someone mentions PulseAudio or systemd or Lennart Poettering or anything that people think is new and therefore bad. “Remember PulseAudio!” is the generic anti-innovation argument.

It is a well-known fact that software never improves from the point in time when it was first looked at. Therefore to some people something like System-V init is perfect because we've already had 25 years to shake out the bugs, but something like PulseAudio is an unmitigated disaster that is not worth one's time even 10 years later, no matter how much work other people have put into it in the meantime.