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mjg59today at 12:29 AM1 replyview on HN

DMIX was typically not an out of the box default, and had multiple shortcomings.


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hedoratoday at 2:02 AM

Even so, surely it would have been easier and better to just fix or replace dmix (in kernel, in the existing data path) than introduce a userspace daemon, break API compatibility, and so on.

It’s been 20 years and pulseaudio is still flaky / high latency / incomprehensible. Professional flows that care use stuff like jack.

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