I remember my first distro was Ubuntu 7.04. There was no Pipewire or Pulseaudio, only Alsa. By default it was not possible that two applications could play sound at the same time. It was only possible after some config hacking… I don’t miss those times.
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I remember my first distro was Ubuntu 7.04. There was no Pipewire or Pulseaudio, only Alsa. By default it was not possible that two applications could play sound at the same time. It was only possible after some config hacking… I don’t miss those times.
Oh my god yes. It was a dark age.