• Victor@lemmy.world
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    I’m a user for about 20 years.

    I must be lucky. I had no issues with pulseaudio. In fact I thought it was so wonderful how you could hear multiple applications at the same time!

    I thought gnome 3 was really cool as well. I didn’t use it as long as I did 2, but that’s because I found out about tiling window management (and later scrolling window management). But I liked the design of Gnome 3, not sure why. Felt modern, like a bold step in a modern direction. 😊

    Systemd I just have no feelings about. I’m not well-read about the drama or how or why it’s a badly designed system. I don’t write my own units or whatever. I just start/enable and stop services. 😅

    But these were just examples. Maybe you mean more stuff have been bad coming from Redhat.

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      In fact I thought it was so wonderful how you could hear multiple applications at the same time!

      That was possible with ALSA and the “dmix” plugin years before pulseaudio came out.

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        Alright. Nothing I knew about at the time.

        Still it worked really well for me, and the experience I have is basically that a working system (pulse) was replaced by another (pipe). Must’ve been lucky.

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          Yeah. I’ve been using Linux for at least 20 too

          Things like pulse audio also exposed a lot of driver bugs in audio hardware. In fact, in Windows, I discovered my awe64 was massively slowing down my system

          I suspect some people are confusing the issues with windows 7 too though, where some people also had audio issues initially

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              Not all of when of course, but I seem to remember it was a factor. But it was so long ago now

              Windows also had a lot of similar accusations at the time too