I haven't used PulseAudio until very recently when Firefox started requiring it for audio (chrome/chromium still support plain ALSA), that said I haven't come across any problem, what should I be looking out for ?
- a while ago pa got audio routing wrong on a new/obscure laptop, wrong audio routing as in - speakers would not turn off if you plug in headphones. That eventually got fixed with dnf upgrade and no effort on my part;
- on ultrabook, pa sucks noticeable amount of battery by waking up 100 times a second (while no audio is being played). Something akin to what this poor chap is describing:
Nothing really, it's fine for nearly everything and just tends to get on with the job.
The only bug that's affected me in the last couple of years was that the default volume on USB headsets was always set way too low. Pavucontrol helped sort it out
The only problem I've had recently is that I can't seem to split up different ports on the same card (optical home theatre/soundbar for music, desktop stereo for everything else), but that's not something I was able to do with ALSA anyway.
Something to do with opening the card in different profiles I think.
