GNOME removes features again

Build Firefox without PA on Gentoo.

I personally hate how it takes 5-9% of cpu usage on my setup and the only thing it does alsa doesn't is allow you to control volume of programs individually.
Meanwhile I at most only ever have a music player and something else on the foreground that may or may not be playing audio and basically every music player ever has audio controls built in.
And alsa does it with lower audio latency and unmeasurable cpu usage.
Alsa is a straight up upgrade from pulseaudio and pulse is only ever used by tardy maintainers and projects who surrendered to Poettering's "gentle push" strategy.

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Because gaps are comfy, silly!

Remind me again what’s wrong with dbus and avahi in that picture. I totally get why PulseAudio and Systemd are bad, but not the other 2.
We kinda discussed this in another thread, but we didn’t really reach a clear answer.

This is the state of modern computing.
PULSEAUDIO is completely unusable on first gen atoms.

wew, why is GNU still funding these cockheads?

Still think the biggest joke was system76, their "popOS" as a result of ubuntu leaving unity is just a side by side gnome installation with less shit working

I'm not an expert, but from the dozen articles I've read and multiple interviews, I have this vague suspicion that System76 had nothing to do with Unity and created PopOS because of Canonical's relationship with smaller vendors and how Canonical's shortcomings in assimilating System76 work into the mainline was reflected on System76's product, but they couldn't legally modify Canonical's distribution and still call it Ubuntu.

But your theory's cool, too.

I am not an expert either, but I've toyed around with the distro and there's... a bunch to be desired. Then again gnome is trash so I'm obviously a bit biased

That literally has nothing to do with System76's decision to author PopOS.