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0 pointsmackal11y ago0 comments

1) Lennart Poettering

2) MAH FREEDOMS!

There are technical reasons people don't like systemd that are valid, but usually the die hard anti-systemd people boil down to hating Lennart Poettering and complaining about how the US Constitution must some where say they never have to use systemd.

There are some valid concerns (big scope, bloat, feature creep, etc) but they really haven't come to fruition, although are still valid concerns.

At the end of the day, without much effort or trouble of switching to systemd from OpenRC, my system boots faster, which is great.

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Torgo11y ago

Does "years of fucking with PulseAudio problems" count as its own item, or is that a subset of item 1?

mackalOP11y ago

I've never had issues with PulseAudio personally.

beedogs11y ago

...said no one ever.

The very first thing I used to do on any new Linux install (until most distros stopped including it) was to uninstall Pulse and all of its dependencies.

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makomk11y ago

It depends what sound hardware and software you use, what the memory layout of the PulseAudio daemon happens to end up like on your system, your tolerance for audio glitches, and how long you go between reboots. The code quality's awful but if you're lucky you can miss out on the worst of the issues.

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dale-cooper11y ago

I still use ALSA on my desktop system due to weird issues that only happen with PulseAudio.

I still don't trust Lennart, even though systemd looks nice from what i've seen.

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girvo11y ago

Neither, funnily enough. I've never quite understood the hate, but to be fair, if the complaints I've seen were wide-spread problems, that would make sense.

Hello7111y ago

s/pulseaudio/linux/

does that suck too?

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