"The notion that PulseAudio's introduction wasn't highly disruptive to end users is completely ahistorical."
I never said it wasn't, there were plenty of bugs in
PulseAudio. Please make sure not to argue straw men. The statement I have an issue with is claiming that disruption was caused by apps needing to be rewritten for PulseAudio, which was most likely not the case. PulseAudio even had a compatibility mode for ESD for a while, which stuck around until all the ESD code was removed from GNOME. So that particular aspect wasn't disruptive to end users, it sounds like you're talking about some other bugs.
But on that note, this complaining about bugs in PulseAudio and systemd and such is pretty boring to me because it's making a comparison to some situation that never existed. The situation with bugs and missing features in ESD, NAS and aRts was much worse than PulseAudio, and those projects are all dormant. Likewise with upstart and OpenRC.
> The statement I have an issue with is claiming that disruption was caused by apps needing to be rewritten for PulseAudio,
There's not any doubt about that. Things were broken all over the place until they were patched. It was awful.
> which was most likely not the case.
It's weird that you're writing as if this was a hypothetical period that human beings did not actually live through, such that we can only speculate about it.
I never said it wasn't, there were plenty of bugs in PulseAudio. Please make sure not to argue straw men. The statement I have an issue with is claiming that disruption was caused by apps needing to be rewritten for PulseAudio, which was most likely not the case. PulseAudio even had a compatibility mode for ESD for a while, which stuck around until all the ESD code was removed from GNOME. So that particular aspect wasn't disruptive to end users, it sounds like you're talking about some other bugs.
But on that note, this complaining about bugs in PulseAudio and systemd and such is pretty boring to me because it's making a comparison to some situation that never existed. The situation with bugs and missing features in ESD, NAS and aRts was much worse than PulseAudio, and those projects are all dormant. Likewise with upstart and OpenRC.