Comment 6 for bug 316510

Linux is more complex than Windows in many cases due to the enormous amount of configuration you can make, that is both good and bad. If you think Linux sound is not ready, the best thing you can do is try to make it ready.

As for the pavucontrol utility, it will be replaced in Jaunty, so bugs in there are not likely to be fixed unless you report them directly to pulseaudio (www.pulseaudio.org). Pulseaudio has a lot of features but not all of them are easily configurable through a GUI.

If removing .pulse/* helps you, then the behaviour is most likely by Pulseaudio design (call it a design flaw if you wish).

Okay, back to the actual bug. Is the bug still that sound is being played back through HDA-intel instead of through the Juli? And are you saying that moving the stream in pavucontrol sometimes work and sometimes doesn't? Please clarify.