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On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 8:05 PM, Yuri K. Shatroff <yks-uno@××××××.ru> wrote: |
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> In the end, I humbly believe it's up to me to judge what effect there is for |
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> me on my computers. |
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Yes, that's exactly the point. Scroll up and reread this thread, |
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though, and you'll get the impression that some complainers seem to |
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think that Lennart is breaking into their systems and magickally |
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installing his 175-year old software in them. What's this about 100% |
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of the users being "forced" to have pulseaudio in? |
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And don't pretend you don't know what I'm talking about here. If |
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somewhere up there we're talking about "enforced" choices we're not |
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talking about gentoo, we're talking about stuff like Fedora or Ubuntu |
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and even "enforced" is a stretch as you could always go with a |
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minimal, alternate, or a forked desktop. And it's pretty obvious why |
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they thought it was sane for pulse to be a default choice. |
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Basically there's a bunch of vague criticisms of unnamed systems where |
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"they" force stuff on "all users" for "no good reason". Nevermind that |
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we can actually state what the reasons are. Fingers in the ears. |
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neener neener. |
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Well I have a better theory, "they" made choices for "defaults-using |
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users" that "you can totally undo" for "pretty decent reasons" but |
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"some of us" just want to "feel better" about the "choices" we made by |
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"pointing and laughing" at the ones we didn't. Even when we know so |
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"much" about the topic that someone actually has to tell us what a |
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"sound server" is or what its "use cases" are and our "use patterns" |
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involve typing things in a black box so that pretty text scrolls |
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quickly and makes us "feel smart" whereas the use patterns of the |
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average user, uh... "don't". |
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It's a sane idea for a desktop distro to include pulse as a -default-. |
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No, seriously, it is. Just, frigging bluetooth headsets. And |
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per-application volume control. Are there other ways to go about it? |
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Yeah. It remains to be seen how any of them are an order of magnitude |
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better than pulse. You don't -like- it? Fine. There's no point in |
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going on on some tirade about how the poor, oppressed 99% of users |
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could have been doing just fine with ALSA just like you have with your |
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more beautiful, hand-crafted system... |
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