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(In reply to comment #174)
> ALSA isn't going away, not even on "small" distros like Debian and Gentoo.
> Remember those anyone? You know, distros that allow you to install what YOU
> want?
To start with I want to say that i have been a loyal Gentoo user for the past 3-4 years, and always have been installing from stage3 builds
> No. Wine does not target specific distros.
But the point is wine targets people who want to run Windows programs on Linux. I used wine to play windows games on Linux. I always had to apply unsupported patches to get things working (e.g. see bug 9787). But there was always a good reason as to why the patches were not included in the main tree. Recently i had the need to use network audio. ALSA doesn't support it natively. ALSA doesn't support to record the audio output on my Intel Audio Chipset, so no streaming programs would work. It was time to switch to PulseAudio. It worked perfectly for all my applications but wine. With wine I must use the the PulseAudio plugin for ALSA, which started hitting performance for games like Warcraft III, and did not give any good audio results. I have been tracking this bug for a long time. I don't think there is any point of that now. I seems like adding pulseaudio support with hurt many people's pride here. I know I could use the unsupported patch, but I don't anymore want to use a piece of code written by people who keep referring to themselves in third person as professional users. I will be using Windows/Gentoo coLinux, and don't bother replying to this message, I won't be checking the bug anymore.