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Originally Posted by simplyw00x
What exactly is the benefit of uninstalling Pulseaudio? It works fine for me, and you haven't mentioned either what benefits you think it will give or what features you will definitely lose.
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Originally Posted by coldReactive
ESound doesn't take up as much processing power (if any at all) as pulseaudio does. Not to mention, it's only about 200-400 KB in size, and only one package rather than a few.
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My opinion (and that's all it is - my opinion, so keep that in mind while you read this post) is that unless you have extremely limited resources or some kind of old or incompatible hardware that your system would actually benefit from purging PulseAudio from your system, that you're probably better off learning how to set up PulseAudio correctly (which is almost as easy as geting rid of it) and becoming familiar with it, because it is not going away. This is the future my friends, and there may come a day in the not so distant future when you may not have the option, or they will at least make it more difficult, to fall back on ESound any more. Yes, Pulse uses more resources and it does take more packages, but it also supports a wider range of devices. Pulse is indeed broken and only halfway installed in Ubuntu 9.04, but it is possible to install the missing packages and get it running correctly on Hardy, Intrepid and Jaunty:
HOWTO: PulseAudio Fixes & System-Wide Equalizer Support
I too was opposed to PulseAudio in the beginning because I saw no need for yet another Linux sound architecture, but now that I have it set up and working like it's supposed to, I actually quite like it. And I'm running it on an Eee PC 1000HA netbook with a puny little 1.6GHz N270 Atom processor, and the performance hit has not been as dreadful as I expected, and will only get better as the developers continue to improve it.
Like I said, this is just my opinion. Take it for what it's worth. I'm not trying to start a debate, I just wanted to present a logical reason for adopting it rather than getting rid of it. Just my two cents on the subject, that's all.