October 24th, 2019 at 2:06 AM
@lain: honestly, I'd love it if I could just rip pulseaudio out of pop! and install OSS4, but from what I can tell debian doesn't support OSS as well as slack arch and gentoo, in some cases being way behind in updates.
OSS also has some serious advantages over ALSA/Pulse.
like it interfaces directly with the audio hardware.
you can set the volume on individual applications natively.
there's almost no delay on audio capture/playback.
it's tweakable.
the downside is, there's not as much hardware support as ALSA for audio chipsets since ALSA became the defacto norm sometime in 2004/2008 I think?
OSS also has some serious advantages over ALSA/Pulse.
like it interfaces directly with the audio hardware.
you can set the volume on individual applications natively.
there's almost no delay on audio capture/playback.
it's tweakable.
the downside is, there's not as much hardware support as ALSA for audio chipsets since ALSA became the defacto norm sometime in 2004/2008 I think?
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