There are two things you need to do to help. 1) Stop ranting. 2) Fix the crappy applications that use ALSA incorrectly (often making the invalid assumption that the device you've chosen is a hardware device) to either use it correctly, or better, to use the PulseAudio protocol natively.
We are not doing a U-turn on PulseAudio, so just forget it. -- Default ALSA device must use PulseAudio, otherwise ALSA applications may fail https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/198453 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs