But these days, PulseAudio just works. No one has come up with a good alternative. Especially not one with the same features and level of integration. Couldn&#x27;t it be that audio is just not that easy to get right, and Pulse is taking the flak because it&#x27;s working on an impossible problem no one else works on? Like there hasn&#x27;t really been any improvement in sysvinit in the last two decades?<p>I&#x27;m also not happy with the &quot;those who actually use the software&quot; in the article. I use systemd. I love systemd. It&#x27;s been rock solid for my servers and desktops, its easier to use than sysvinit and it has features that I love that other systems don&#x27;t have.<p>Also I disagree with the &quot;unaccountable cliques of developers&quot; thing. All important distros have independently decided to go with systemd. The people creating the distros and making that decision are the people that have to work with systemd most, and most directly. They are the experts. Compared to them, the author of the article is not.<p>TL;DR: My audio works out of the box now thanks in part to Lennart Poettering, so what are you talking about.