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(In reply to comment #200)
> dmix is a "better solution" because it works. pulseaudio has extra features,
> but it's problems like this that make it unsuitable for the average user.
PulseAudio works as well perfectly fine for a wide range of users. It works perfectly fine with all the fine applications that support it. Naturally it does not work as good with Wine and that is exactly that this BUG is here. This bug in Wine of not supporting PulseAudio.
> > Fedora, Ubuntu, Mandriva, Linux Mint, and openSUSE at this point. I believe
> > that easily makes it a majority by any count. And it has been here for nearly 2
> > years.
>
> That's nowhere near the majority. distrowatch.com has plenty more.
Please don't be silly. Yes, there are thousands of Linux distros. But: 1) by the number of users the ones I named constitute an overwhelming majority of desktop users, 2) I've done the research before: over 90% of all Linux distros are derivative distros from either Debian/Ubuntu or Fedora. With over 60% falling in Debian/Ubuntu camp. And those have pulseaudio. So, as I said before - by any metric, PulseAudio is there by default in the overwhelming majority of desktop Linux distributions today.