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That was possible with ALSA and the "dmix" plugin years before pulseaudio came out.
Alright. Nothing I knew about at the time.
Still it worked really well for me, and the experience I have is basically that a working system (pulse) was replaced by another (pipe). Must've been lucky.
Yeah. I've been using Linux for at least 20 too
Things like pulse audio also exposed a lot of driver bugs in audio hardware. In fact, in Windows, I discovered my awe64 was massively slowing down my system
I suspect some people are confusing the issues with windows 7 too though, where some people also had audio issues initially
Ah, so they blamed pulse for driver and firmware bugs? I guess that happens easily.
Not all of when of course, but I seem to remember it was a factor. But it was so long ago now
Windows also had a lot of similar accusations at the time too