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The good people over at Infoworld have published a story outlining why they feel systemd is a disaster.
Excerpt from Infoworld:
While systemd has succeeded in its original goals, it's not stopping there. systemd is becoming the Svchost of Linux—which I don't think most Linux folks want. You see, systemd is growing, like wildfire, well outside the bounds of enhancing the Linux boot experience. systemd wants to control most, if not all, of the fundamental functional aspects of a Linux system—from authentication to mounting shares to network configuration to syslog to cron. It wants to do so as essentially a monolithic entity that obscures what's happening behind the scenes.
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(Score: 1) by cout on Tuesday August 19 2014, @03:05PM
I agree that the big benefit of pulseaudio is bluetooth support. But I'm yet to use any bluetooth device under desktop linux in A2DP mode that doesn't drop out due to overflow. And while that's likely the fault of bluez or blueman or whatever and not pulseaudio, it means that bluetooth support isn't a particularly convincing argument for me to have all the additional latency imposed by pulseaudio.
(Score: 2) by NCommander on Tuesday August 19 2014, @03:28PM
A lot of the experience is just being able to sanely reroute audio from point to point; on my desktop, sending some streams to headphones while other to HDMI is a breeze with pulse. The fact though is we shouldn't need pulse to do this, almost everything pulse does with the exception of network audio routing can be done directly by ALSA; the problem is the API is poorly documented, and what few tools are even worse. In my little bubble of the world though, pulse has been relatively trouble free, and it does solve some actual problems.
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(Score: 2) by Nerdfest on Tuesday August 19 2014, @04:04PM
Likewise. I use PA heavily, including its BlueTooth support. I use BlueTooth headphones and a BlueTooth receiver on my stereo and it works very well other than dropping the signal when I walk between the machine and the receiver sometimes. Apparently I'm very radio opaque.