Linux Audio Backend Interview

ALSA Project Headquarters What are your qualifications? [DISTORTED SCREAMING] wontix: app set volume to 100 PulseAudio Headquarters [red handwritten text: ROCK WITH ALSA] MR. SMITH, WHERE CAN YOU SEE YOURSELF IN TEN YEARS? GSS PROJECT HEADQUARTERS WELCOME ABOARD! What audio backends do you support? PipeWire, ALSA, PulseAudio, and JACK

A comic depicts a job interview in which different Linux audio backends are represented as office headquarters. When the applicant screams at maximum volume, PulseAudio is rejected and PipeWire hires him after he lists support for several backends. The joke references Linux audio-stack preferences and the longstanding rivalry and frustration around ALSA, PulseAudio, and newer systems such as PipeWire. EN: A comic depicts a job interview in which different Linux audio backends are represented as office headquarters. When the applicant screams at maximum volume, PulseAudio is rejected and PipeWire hires him after he lists support for several backends. The joke references Linux audio-stack preferences and the longstanding rivalry and frustration around ALSA, PulseAudio, and newer systems such as PipeWire.

• @infosecmemes / 487 2020-12-04
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