I agree. It's disgusting. Luckily he's a brilliant engineer and was able to withstand the flames long enough for people to recognise how good his software is.
Pulseaudio and systemd are two of the best things to happen to Linux in years.
Pulseaudio and systemd are two of the best things to happen to Linux in years.
Have you considered that a flexible, high-quality OS audio subsystem might be difficult to bang out in one weekend?
> ALSA was bad in a lot of ways, but was workable.
Are you kidding? Every desktop install before pulseaudio was a crapshoot when it came to audio.
> I agree moving forward is good, but the issue with alot of OSS software is it's used a replacement for working software when it's not quite ready.
No-one forced anyone to switch to pulseaudio, and has any software ever been perfect in release 0.1? I personally upgraded straight from Debian squeeze (default ALSA) to wheezy (default Pulse) without a single issue, because pulseaudio wasn't integrated until it was stable.
> What I don't like is the hooks that systemd places into software it has no business touching, like Gnome.
It's not like systemd people sneaked their "hooks" into Gnome. Gnome switched to systemd interfaces (e.g. logind) because they fixed real bugs!
> Userland software should not be touched by this. Full stop.
It isn't! Developers are just switching because it is better.
Wow. This post is a good example of the baseless accusations Lennart has to put up with.
EDIT: Other than that, it _does_ work quite well nowadays.