Comment 261 for bug 371897

(In reply to comment #151)
> > Average users don't have any problems with the latency of a good configured
> > pulse audio.
>
> Except when using Wine, Skype etc. Hence the issue. And given that dmix does
> not suffer from these same latency issues, it's obviously a problem with pulse.
> Face it, pulse is virtually broken by design, and was adopted far too early by
> distros like *buntu and Fedora.
Of course. It's important to have low latency on these audio streams I can't
hear since my card is blocked by another application.

> Wine can't support a broken distro. If it's really so difficult to disable
> pulseaudio, it's not Wine's fault but the distro's.
Again: If I disable software mixing by pulse, I cannot use a voice application
and watch a video simultaneously.

About the whole latency issue: Who cares? There is a checkbox to choose another
audio backend whenever you want; each winecfg user is capable of using ALSA or
JACK if latency disturbs him.