Comment 272 for bug 371897

I thought wineesd had been dropped a long time ago, along with winearts. The main reason for dropping drivers are maintenance efforts.

I am fine with having multiple drivers to deal with different OSes. winecoreaudio for OSX. Wineaudioio for solaris. winealsa for Linux, etc. I don't understand why Linux needs 5 different audio APIs, while every other system works just fine with one. I don't care what it's name is, just give me one system that (a) is available everywhere, (b) doesn't need manual user setup, (c) provides low latency and (d) allows software mixing. Windows gets that done. OSX gets that done. How hard can it be?