Originally posted by SaucyJack
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Again arch user here too, PA is absolutely trouble free for me since 2010.
Chipsets i've owned:
Asus Xonar
SB Live 5.1(love it but my xeon board is matx :** )
AMD(several brands):
760g
880g
970
990FX
Intel
G41
B85(current with a Xeon 1231-v3)
Speakers i've used or still use
Logitech h540 (headphones)
Cambridge Soundworks(4.1) SPDIF (they old but i love the sound)
Logitech Z506
Couple of old Bluetooth headphones i have around from Motorola days
Software i use:
Kodi 16.1
Rhytmbox
Amarok(when i'm in plasma)
Audacity when i'm converting old music and stuff
Mpv
Chromium/Firefox(youtube and stuff ofc)
Zoiper for voip
Again, since 2010 i have no glitch, no need to touch a single conf file, no latency issue, no manual configuration(even my bluetooth headphones are automagic), no noise, no weird quirky sounds, no volume issues, no mixing issues(Even when incoming voip call, PA is smart enough to mute sound and unmute ring, etc). no sound difference with windows(skyrim partition basically), no netflix issues, no codec issue(in fact my arch play more formats than windows 7 lol), no steam game issue, no issues with Wine games, no issues with Virtual machines,etc.
Notice all this is standard archlinux OOB config, i've never edited anything related to PA in my systems
So, i'm not saying your lieing or anything but after so many years and so many system i strongly believe there is a hardware/Alsa/PA issue at work here and you should report it instead of hating for whatever reason.
If this were an actual design or software issue it should be reproducible in any system but since is not (Btw i never had issues with fedora either in case anyone wonders), then there is an actual problem in your system(and some others statistically speaken) peculiar setting, Hence PA is just fine since for most(see i'm not saying all) people it does its work just bloody fine in most(again not all) system configurations.
now feel free to keep ranting or actually do something about it and open bug reports(i would open 1 for Alsa and 1 for PA if i were you).
Lennart haters need to be more creative, beating the same old horse over and over again is getting old really fast
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