Fuck PulseAudio and openSUSE

Yeah… You read it right…. There is a limit to everything. If you cannot stand up to the needs of the user base, you are bound to lose them… I don’t know what they had in their mind when they integrated pulseAudio in SUSE, but it simply does not work. That is it.

There is more to the story though. The openSUSE IRC channel is the worst channel I have ever been to (maybe other channels are worse… but I cannot speak for them). The people there are useless. No one genuinly wants to help. They act as if someone beat them up and made them stay in the channel at the point of a gun…

Anyways, after many hours of fruitless discussions and other useless tips and so called ways to get out of this mess, I stand where I started. PulseAudio cannot play 2 or more streams of audio simultaniously. I tried the so called perfect setup (google for it… you will get the link) which is far from perfect. There is just not enough help to debug the situation.

From what I hear, this is the openSUSE team which has fucked things up… Ubuntu, I hear, has the perfect setup and works out of the box. SUSE is falling behind and the rate is exponential… I am not sure I will be using it in January 2009. Will just wait for the 11.1 release. Most probably, it will suck in this field too… in that case… bye bye SUSE.

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4 Responses to “Fuck PulseAudio and openSUSE”

T December 2nd, 2008 at 11:46 am

Pulseaudio is a PITA :p

Steven Wevodau December 3rd, 2008 at 2:00 am

Nice post. Thank you for the info. Keep it up.

Chinmay Kamat December 5th, 2008 at 7:18 pm

Actually ubuntu also had it messed up in 8.04 .. but in 8.10 everything seems to work out of the box … _seems to_ …there are some new complications now…alsa aint working (mic auto mutes) !!! but thats for the laptop…desktop is fine….and the distro that actually did it right was Fedora….or at least thats what i heard :P

Aditya December 6th, 2008 at 1:28 pm

Hehe… Well… might be. As I said, I will take a look at 11.1 (extensive look) and then decide wheather to use it or not.

I have re-installed Arch as second OS for now and have been using it for a week now. It feels good to use esd and have simultanious sounds…

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