Do you like Pulse Audio ?

[minthaka]

Or would you rather see the project dropped?

I don't know what's your opinion. I hate PA since the day it was first released. Always causing audio troubles, no effective benefits... I would like to post the link of this poll to the developing team. It's not fair that they have enslaved Linux with their experiment!

[darkrose0510]

I chose option 4, 'sometimes'

[elija]

Prior to Ubuntu 9.10 I hated it; but now that "It Just Works"TM in 9.10 I have upgraded my status to Indifferent.

So that is how I have voted.

[GNU-Fan]

I voted for kill because I could never see any advantages by using it.
Maybe it has some reason to exist and to scuttle over ALSA. It's just that I fail to see what that would be.

It came so ... unasked ... uninvited.

[bigtomrodney]

There's a lot of bad vibes around PulseAudio, but I sincerely believe that a lot of newer users just repeat what they read about it. It has never given me trouble on any hardware or distribution, despite having being deployed a bit prematurely by Fedora and Ubuntu.

Anyone who has a beef with Pulse clearly has forgotten the problems of OSS, Alsa, aRTs and ESD each trying to lock your soundcard. The old days were full of applications locking up or failing to work because another app hijacked the soundcard. Pulse is very welcome in my mind, I'm personally very happy that most users have been able to forget about the old days of soundcard horrors.

[arinlares]

I haven't had any issues with Pulse myself, but don't really have anything to compare it to, as it's all I've used. I haven't even had any issues that the Ubuntu wiki claims will happen with UNR on my netbook.

[MikeTbob]

I've not had any troubles with it, for one thing I don't have it installed on Gentoo. I'm pretty sure it's installed on My Linux Mint partition but I'd have to check. (Voted Indifferent)

[daark.child]

It works fine in recent distro releases like openSUSE 11.2, Mandriva 2010 etc, so I don't have a problem with it. I think some distros were too quick to implement it in older releases before it was production ready.

[Charles4809]

I've not had any troubles with it, for one thing I don't have it installed on Gentoo. I'm pretty sure it's installed on My Linux Mint partition but I'd have to check. (Voted Indifferent)

I'm running Mint 7 and it works ok. My girl would be very angry if I voted " in love ", so I voted indifferent.

[Roxoff]

...It has never given me trouble on any hardware or distribution, despite having being deployed a bit prematurely by Fedora and Ubuntu.
...

I think that hits the nail firmly on the head. It's got such a bad name because it wasn't ready when these to big distros rolled it out. And they only did that because Linux was crying out for this kind of change.

I voted indifferent too. What we really need from the underlying sound system on our computers is something that is so reliable that it's never noticed.