[ale] Fixing systemd and pulseaudio: was UEFI vs BIOS understanding

[Bob]

Is Ardour be a better choice for recording than Audacity?

--Bob


On 2020-12-21 12:37 p.m., Jim Ransone via Ale wrote:
> As a relatively non-technical person who uses my computer for audio 
> stuff, having to deal with alsa, pulseaudio, and jack has been a 
> confusing hassle. What I gathered from spending way too much time 
> reading and watching tutorials to figure this stuff out is that alsa is 
> the base level, pulseaudio rides on top of that and handles audio for 
> most common applications but lacks the low-latency necessary for audio 
> recording. Hence the need for Jack. Then you need to figure out how to 
> make jack and pulseaudio play nice and function along side each other. 
> It's a mess. Thankfully, the new version of Ardour recommends just using 
> alsa by itself. It makes sense that this would be faster. And it 
> prevents me from spiraling down a rabbit hole of confusion trying to 
> figure out why my audio isn't working. So now I have no need for Jack at 
> all, and pulseaudio does whatever it does without bothering me. The only 
> downside is that when Ardour is running, youtube videos will not play. A 
> little annoying, but I can live with it.
> 
> Jim
> 
> On 12/21/20 12:17 PM, Boris Borisov via Ale wrote:
>> Or pick a distro that is already modified.
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 21, 2020, 11:55 AM Leam Hall via Ale <ale at ale.org 
>> <mailto:ale at ale.org>> wrote:
>>
>>     On 12/21/20 11:50 AM, Steve Litt via Ale wrote:
>>     > On Mon, 21 Dec 2020 09:08:09 -0500
>>     > DJ-Pfulio via Ale <ale at ale.org <mailto:ale at ale.org>> wrote:
>>     >
>>     >
>>     >> Someday, systemd and pulseaudio will be "fixed" by removal, which
>>     >> would be good.
>>     >
>>     > That day can't come fast enough.
>>     >
>>     > SteveT
>>     >
>>     > Steve Litt
>>     >
>>
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