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

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' For simple recording and editing Audacity will suffice. '

Oh Yeah, if you can get it to play with pulse, alsa, or jack. :^)

Doug.

On Mon, Dec 21, 2020 at 12:59 PM Boris Borisov via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> Ardour is more like DAW. For simple recording and editing Audacity will
> suffice.
>
> On Mon, Dec 21, 2020, 12:51 PM Bob via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> 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
>> >>     >
>> >>
>> >>     There are days when "Linux From Scratch" seems like a great idea...
>> >>
>> >>     --     Leam
>> >>
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