Everyone has their viewpoint.<div><br></div><div>Gaming in Ubuntu Karmic is quite an unpleasant experience due to the ALSA<->PA plugin making games die / have really stuttering sound. Nobody cares about it atm "until after the holidays", so I'm still waiting on that for a resolution...</div>
<div><br></div><div>I have a USB headset, and no, the first time plugged in PA did nothing. I had to manually change the input and output streams to the USB headset to make my apps work. Worse than that, I'm not able to specify a default one - so for every new app, I have to set it to my headset. To make matters more fun, PA will reset (at some condition which I don't agree with and doesn't help my use case) to my onboard sound card.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Oh and the new teamspeak 3 that just came out completely fails to work on ubuntu karmic. Just hogs all CPU and dies when you try to record any sound in it.</div><div><br></div><div>But hey, on the bright side, recordmydesktop doesn't bork out with "someone is already using the sound card" problem. </div>