4. He imposed obamacare which doubled my monthly healthcare costs.
HE didn't raise your healthcare costs, your insurance company did, when people who didn't have insurance got some and actually started using healthcare to improve their lives! The insurance industry were STILL making insane profits, just smaller insane profits, so they raised prices. And they were able to do so because the government didn't have the power to stop them. Remember, if you get your healthcare from your employer, not from the exchanges, the ACA doesn't have anything to do with that.
Blame excessive unregulated capitalism, not Obama.
It's not that anything that uses pulse is dead while jackd runs, it is that unless you have everything configured up right it will "appear" audio-dead. But if you DO have it configured up properly you can use applications that use pulseaudio while using JACK. I've done it.
Pulse HAS displaced ALSA, except for some of the bearded grognards. As for JACK, JACK is designed for more high end audio, especially real-time work. IIRC Pulseaudio wasn't capable of realtime operation until what was it, last year? And even then I've been told it can't do some of the source/sink tricks JACK can do.
That said, I run Fedora as a desktop, and pulse has worked well for me in Fedora since what was it, 15? That's when HDMI audio began working automagically without me having to manually configure it. (It worked BEFORE then, but required some manual config edits)
Install qjackctl and start jackd? Youtube still works?
If will if you have it set up properly. The way Jack and pulse interact has changed in the past couple of years. If you're still using an older configuration it might not work properly.
Two ways of handling it:
load the module-jack-source module-jack-sink modules by default in the pulse configs.
Open Qjackctrl, In the set 'Execute script on startup' setting change it to:
pulseaudio -k
Then when you hit the button to actually start the server it kills Pulse for a moment, jack takes over, but then pulse restarts and interfaces with jack properly.
If you don't want to load those modules by default you can add the following to qjackctrl's 'Execute script after startup' setting along with the pulseaudio-k setting above:
3. If you're trying to set up 5.1 over optical SPDIF, may god have mercy on your soul. Good luck getting it to output 5.1 DTS. I was only ever able to get stereo, but I hear it's doable.
Pulse defaults to LPCM for higher quality and SPDIF can only handle 2 channel LPCM. You can edit the various config files to change that if pavucontrol isn't giving you an option to switch between various modes in the configuration tab.
Failing that, try HDMI, pulse can send up to 7.1 LPCM over HDMI.
You are confused about what GStreamer is. It can't replace pulse because it is a multimedia framework that works at a different level. If you check the processes of your supposedly pulse free KDE system you will find pulse, unless you intentionally removed it.
And if consoles still did that, it'd be great. I watched my housemate set up a multiplayer game of FIFA on the PS3...
The key word in that statement is "PS3", things are more streamlined on the PS4 where everything is more unified.
I can hear the fans in my housemates PS4 from another floor.
Fat PS3's are louder....he probably doesn't have it well ventilated or else it has dust/cat hair in it.
Which lacks the precision of a KB and mouse. I mean you don't have a choice of controllers at all.
Sure we've got a choice, it just depends on the game. Supporting mouse+keyboard (or other controls) on Playstations is a developer choice, not Sony's. I've got PS2/PS3/PS4 games within 10 feet of my current position that DO support various control methods.
Works so well on my housemates PS4, he sometimes does it twice.
Perhaps your "mate" doesn't know how to properly use the PS4, because you only have to tap the PS button ONCE to make the controller active.
- Paying for multiplayer.
Technically PS+ subscriptions aren't just for multiplayer, they include the Instant game library. Also some games don't require PS+ for online multiplayer on the PS4, and it is NEVER required on the PS3 or Vita.
- RROD and YLOD's.
Never had one of those, the people who have those are a tiny minority.
"centre" "bollocks" - high prices of games.
I take it you're in the UK a traditional bastion of anti-console rhetoric (thanks to the UK government protecting Sinclair from the likes of Nintendo, Sega, Sony), You might know know this but in the US, PC and console games are priced EXACTLY the same.
Early PSPs had some stuck pixels, but later ones were fine.
Yep, I had a couple of stuck pixels on a PSP-1000 launch model, they eventually became unstuck but it took a looooong time. Eventually the UMD drive on it failed and I got a PSP-3000, no stuck pixels on that.
I don't know...the Atari Flashbacks Volume 2 on PS4 has Asteroids and it gets DAMN close to the arcade edition, even down to emulating the glow. It comes closer to the right look than any other version I've seen.
Don't paint it black with red skulls, cobras, and psychoclowns. And don't call it the Razer Kraken DeathAdder Cobra Venom Kyllstryke BludDeth Copperhead Pit Viper XTREEM FragZ edition like we're a bunch of 90's Rob Liefeld comic obsessed dudebros
Then you can buy whatever Linux machine you want for your work needs, and have the PS4 for games. And never have to touch windows to play No Man's Sky.
No, that was about Twitch providing a "buy this game" button while you're watching the stream. That button would go to Amazon. It works the same way that the "go to game's page on PSN" works when you're watching a stream on a PS4. In fact the PS4 has had that feature since the beginning.
Consoles have all the complexity of a PC with all kinds of free reboots and whatnot,
What are you talking about?
Consoles have all the hardware complexity of a PC with an optical drive to fail, which is locked to the console to make it hard for you to repair it.
So? PC DVD drives fail as well, besides most PC's DON'T have blu-ray drives. If they did, they could slap the PC version on a blu ray and not have to have you download 30-50 GB with their "downloader" And if a console blu-ray drive fails, send it in to Sony/Microsoft, they'll fix it. Though I haven't had a console optical drive fail since the early model PS2.
Console controllers have propietary wireless interfaces, even Sony really does since they play fast and loose with bluetooth.
DS3's/DS4's work just fine over Bluetooth....in Linux...including Steam. Windows user?
I have a PS3 so maybe the experience is better now.
It is.
But whenever I do pull out my PS3, usually about 30 minutes is installing the latest OS update. Then the next 10-20 minutes is installing whatever game patch is out.
You're not using it enough and you obviously haven't set it up for automatic updates. (which it will do at around 4-5 AM by default)
They pretty much have to be if they're willing to pay 10-15 bucks more for a game than PC gamers...
Did you just time travel from 1999? While in the past there was a price differential and I know that in Europe PC partisan devs/publishers kept the price differential up longer because they wanted to favor the PC... but there isn't one NOW and hasn't been for about a decade.
Cheap games. If you don't insist on the latest releases, PC games are typically much cheaper. Even for the same titles.
Not necessarily, I've compared prices for older games and sometimes the console version is cheaper. Your thinking is a relic of the time before PSN and Xbox Marketplace started having regular sales.
Game selection. Some games need something more flexible than a game controller (e.g. a keyboard).
I'm looking at the USB ports on the PS4 and PS3 (and PS2 before them), they're there for a reason. And yes, I have plugged keyboards into those consoles and used said keyboards with various console games. The last time I did it was last night while playing STO (Star Trek Online) on the PS4 while editing the Bio of one of my BOFF's (Bridge Officers).
Some developers need a marketplace more open than a game console (e.g. something that they can access).
That thinking is a relic of the time when console marketplaces were less friendly to indie developers....that's not the case now:
Overall, better compatibility across "generations". PC games may be dodgy when it comes down to hardware support, but a well developed PC game has a better chance of running on a new PC 10 years down the road than a console game does on a new console.
That's because the PC has been a OS based Microsoft monoculture. Consoles haven't, not even taking into account the changes of architecture. After all the PS2 is MIPS, the PS3 PPC and the PS4 X86_64.
Unless you get lucky and are offered the privilege of paying for a new version of that console game.
Cross-buy helped a little in the early days of the PS4. That was where if you had bought the PS3 version of some games, you got the PS4 version for free or at a discount. It was mostly an indie thing.
In some cases that applies to the Vita version as well.
Umm, consoles ALREADY have (and have had for years) digital downloads, and a lot of us console players have most of their PS4/Xbox One games as digital downloads. This GamePass thing is essentially a cross between Gamefly and Playstation Now (Sony's Gaikai/Onlive derived service)
IMHO this will go over better with the "dudebro sports and brown shooter crowd" who tend to only play those games, rather than say the generalist gamers or RPG guys.
While I wouldn't say consoles is solely where the action is, it IS a good chunk of money so any smart dev is going to go cross-platform.
That is one reason why Cryptic/Perfect World released Neverwinter and Star Trek Online on console. Some of the PC players believe that the console release has saved the game from being shut down by providing a valuable income stream.
Or take a look at Torment: Tides of Numenera, the "spiritual successor" to Planescape Torment a game that was NEVER on console. It was simultaneously released on PC and Console a few days ago.
Or Minecraft, which some PC Master race types said was the sort of game that would NEVER be on console....well you know how that turned out.
Same goes for Stardew Valley, Kerbal Space Program, World of Tanks or War Thunder.
Games cost money to make, and console players are in general more willing to spend money (and not just during sales) than the "I only buy games during steam sales" types.
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4. He imposed obamacare which doubled my monthly healthcare costs.
HE didn't raise your healthcare costs, your insurance company did, when people who didn't have insurance got some and actually started using healthcare to improve their lives! The insurance industry were STILL making insane profits, just smaller insane profits, so they raised prices. And they were able to do so because the government didn't have the power to stop them. Remember, if you get your healthcare from your employer, not from the exchanges, the ACA doesn't have anything to do with that.
Blame excessive unregulated capitalism, not Obama.
It's not that anything that uses pulse is dead while jackd runs, it is that unless you have everything configured up right it will "appear" audio-dead. But if you DO have it configured up properly you can use applications that use pulseaudio while using JACK. I've done it.
Pulse HAS displaced ALSA, except for some of the bearded grognards. As for JACK, JACK is designed for more high end audio, especially real-time work. IIRC Pulseaudio wasn't capable of realtime operation until what was it, last year? And even then I've been told it can't do some of the source/sink tricks JACK can do.
That said, I run Fedora as a desktop, and pulse has worked well for me in Fedora since what was it, 15? That's when HDMI audio began working automagically without me having to manually configure it. (It worked BEFORE then, but required some manual config edits)
Install qjackctl and start jackd? Youtube still works?
If will if you have it set up properly. The way Jack and pulse interact has changed in the past couple of years. If you're still using an older configuration it might not work properly.
Two ways of handling it:
load the module-jack-source module-jack-sink modules by default in the pulse configs.
Open Qjackctrl, In the set 'Execute script on startup' setting change it to:
pulseaudio -k
Then when you hit the button to actually start the server it kills Pulse for a moment, jack takes over, but then pulse restarts and interfaces with jack properly.
If you don't want to load those modules by default you can add the following to qjackctrl's 'Execute script after startup' setting along with the pulseaudio-k setting above:
pactl load-module module-jack-source;pactl load-module module-jack-sink
3. If you're trying to set up 5.1 over optical SPDIF, may god have mercy on your soul. Good luck getting it to output 5.1 DTS. I was only ever able to get stereo, but I hear it's doable.
Pulse defaults to LPCM for higher quality and SPDIF can only handle 2 channel LPCM. You can edit the various config files to change that if pavucontrol isn't giving you an option to switch between various modes in the configuration tab.
Failing that, try HDMI, pulse can send up to 7.1 LPCM over HDMI.
It has not worked properly in the almost ten years
It hasn't worked for YOU.
now which it has been forced on us.
It hasn't been "forced" on anyone, you're still free to use alsa or OSS
KDE/Qt riped it out long ago because of the issues in favor of GStreamer.
You are confused on what GStreamer actually is, a multimedia framework. KDE systems use pulseaudio by default. Check your processes, I'll wait.
You are confused about what GStreamer is. It can't replace pulse because it is a multimedia framework that works at a different level. If you check the processes of your supposedly pulse free KDE system you will find pulse, unless you intentionally removed it.
In fact KDE uses pulse by default.
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And if consoles still did that, it'd be great.
I watched my housemate set up a multiplayer game of FIFA on the PS3...
The key word in that statement is "PS3", things are more streamlined on the PS4 where everything is more unified.
I can hear the fans in my housemates PS4 from another floor.
Fat PS3's are louder....he probably doesn't have it well ventilated or else it has dust/cat hair in it.
Which lacks the precision of a KB and mouse. I mean you don't have a choice of controllers at all.
Sure we've got a choice, it just depends on the game. Supporting mouse+keyboard (or other controls) on Playstations is a developer choice, not Sony's. I've got PS2/PS3/PS4 games within 10 feet of my current position that DO support various control methods.
Works so well on my housemates PS4, he sometimes does it twice.
Perhaps your "mate" doesn't know how to properly use the PS4, because you only have to tap the PS button ONCE to make the controller active.
- Paying for multiplayer.
Technically PS+ subscriptions aren't just for multiplayer, they include the Instant game library. Also some games don't require PS+ for online multiplayer on the PS4, and it is NEVER required on the PS3 or Vita.
- RROD and YLOD's.
Never had one of those, the people who have those are a tiny minority.
"centre" "bollocks" - high prices of games.
I take it you're in the UK a traditional bastion of anti-console rhetoric (thanks to the UK government protecting Sinclair from the likes of Nintendo, Sega, Sony), You might know know this but in the US, PC and console games are priced EXACTLY the same.
Including boot up
Rest mode
and controller pairing(steam controller is awesome)
On the PS4 all you do is hit the PS4 button.
I'm not locked down to proprietary bullshit expensive headsets and other peripherals.
I don't know where you got the idea that console headsets are proprietary. The PS2 used standard USB headsets.
The PS3 used either usb or Bluetooth.
The PS4 uses either USB or analog.
If you want to use a keyboard you can use whatever USB (or bluetooth one you want)
If you want to use a HOTAS with War Thunder you can use whatever Saitek or Thrustmaster one you want.
But anybody that calls themselves a nerd that owns a console for a reason other than to play games with their non nerd friends is stupid.
I run Linux, I think people playing games on Windows are the stupid ones.
Don't you realize that the quality of PS Now depends on your Internet connection?
The PS4 is already a FreeBSD box.
http://doc.dl.playstation.net/...
I remember, pre-webkit Netfront was a piece of crap on the PSP and PS3.
Early PSPs had some stuck pixels, but later ones were fine.
Yep, I had a couple of stuck pixels on a PSP-1000 launch model, they eventually became unstuck but it took a looooong time. Eventually the UMD drive on it failed and I got a PSP-3000, no stuck pixels on that.
The OLED Vita is perfect, no stuck pixels.
I don't know...the Atari Flashbacks Volume 2 on PS4 has Asteroids and it gets DAMN close to the arcade edition, even down to emulating the glow. It comes closer to the right look than any other version I've seen.
Don't paint it black with red skulls, cobras, and psychoclowns. And don't call it the Razer Kraken DeathAdder Cobra Venom Kyllstryke BludDeth Copperhead Pit Viper XTREEM FragZ edition like we're a bunch of 90's Rob Liefeld comic obsessed dudebros
For this requirement:
My key requirement is to be able to play No Man's Sky without booting into windows, and to be future-proof by supporting at least current gen VR rigs
You'll need to go BSD, but you're in luck, you can buy the necessary hardware at your local Enormo-mart:
https://www.playstation.com/en...
Then you can buy whatever Linux machine you want for your work needs, and have the PS4 for games. And never have to touch windows to play No Man's Sky.
No, that was about Twitch providing a "buy this game" button while you're watching the stream. That button would go to Amazon. It works the same way that the "go to game's page on PSN" works when you're watching a stream on a PS4. In fact the PS4 has had that feature since the beginning.
Consoles have all the complexity of a PC with all kinds of free reboots and whatnot,
What are you talking about?
Consoles have all the hardware complexity of a PC with an optical drive to fail, which is locked to the console to make it hard for you to repair it.
So? PC DVD drives fail as well, besides most PC's DON'T have blu-ray drives. If they did, they could slap the PC version on a blu ray and not have to have you download 30-50 GB with their "downloader" And if a console blu-ray drive fails, send it in to Sony/Microsoft, they'll fix it. Though I haven't had a console optical drive fail since the early model PS2.
Console controllers have propietary wireless interfaces, even Sony really does since they play fast and loose with bluetooth.
DS3's/DS4's work just fine over Bluetooth....in Linux...including Steam. Windows user?
I have a PS3 so maybe the experience is better now.
It is.
But whenever I do pull out my PS3, usually about 30 minutes is installing the latest OS update. Then the next 10-20 minutes is installing whatever game patch is out.
You're not using it enough and you obviously haven't set it up for automatic updates. (which it will do at around 4-5 AM by default)
http://manuals.playstation.net...
And if it takes 30 minutes...is your hard drive in the PS3 old or getting full? It shouldn't take that long.
They pretty much have to be if they're willing to pay 10-15 bucks more for a game than PC gamers...
Did you just time travel from 1999? While in the past there was a price differential and I know that in Europe PC partisan devs/publishers kept the price differential up longer because they wanted to favor the PC... but there isn't one NOW and hasn't been for about a decade.
For Honor: $59.99 on PSN and Steam
https://store.playstation.com/...
http://store.steampowered.com/...
Berzerk and the Band of the Hawk: $59.99 on PSN and Steam
https://store.playstation.com/...
http://store.steampowered.com/...
Fallout 4: $59.99 on PSN and Steam
https://store.playstation.com/...
http://store.steampowered.com/...
Rebel Galaxy $19.99 on PSN and Steam
https://store.playstation.com/...
http://store.steampowered.com/...
Stardew Valley $14.99 on PSN and Steam
https://store.playstation.com/...
http://store.steampowered.com/...
Cheap games. If you don't insist on the latest releases, PC games are typically much cheaper. Even for the same titles.
Not necessarily, I've compared prices for older games and sometimes the console version is cheaper. Your thinking is a relic of the time before PSN and Xbox Marketplace started having regular sales.
Game selection. Some games need something more flexible than a game controller (e.g. a keyboard).
I'm looking at the USB ports on the PS4 and PS3 (and PS2 before them), they're there for a reason. And yes, I have plugged keyboards into those consoles and used said keyboards with various console games. The last time I did it was last night while playing STO (Star Trek Online) on the PS4 while editing the Bio of one of my BOFF's (Bridge Officers) .
Some developers need a marketplace more open than a game console (e.g. something that they can access).
That thinking is a relic of the time when console marketplaces were less friendly to indie developers....that's not the case now:
https://store.playstation.com/...
Overall, better compatibility across "generations". PC games may be dodgy when it comes down to hardware support, but a well developed PC game has a better chance of running on a new PC 10 years down the road than a console game does on a new console.
That's because the PC has been a OS based Microsoft monoculture. Consoles haven't, not even taking into account the changes of architecture. After all the PS2 is MIPS, the PS3 PPC and the PS4 X86_64.
Unless you get lucky and are offered the privilege of paying for a new version of that console game.
Cross-buy helped a little in the early days of the PS4. That was where if you had bought the PS3 version of some games, you got the PS4 version for free or at a discount. It was mostly an indie thing.
In some cases that applies to the Vita version as well.
What are these glass cases you speak of?
Most of my PS4 games are digital.
Umm, consoles ALREADY have (and have had for years) digital downloads, and a lot of us console players have most of their PS4/Xbox One games as digital downloads. This GamePass thing is essentially a cross between Gamefly and Playstation Now (Sony's Gaikai/Onlive derived service)
IMHO this will go over better with the "dudebro sports and brown shooter crowd" who tend to only play those games, rather than say the generalist gamers or RPG guys.
While I wouldn't say consoles is solely where the action is, it IS a good chunk of money so any smart dev is going to go cross-platform.
That is one reason why Cryptic/Perfect World released Neverwinter and Star Trek Online on console. Some of the PC players believe that the console release has saved the game from being shut down by providing a valuable income stream.
Or take a look at Torment: Tides of Numenera, the "spiritual successor" to Planescape Torment a game that was NEVER on console. It was simultaneously released on PC and Console a few days ago.
Or Minecraft, which some PC Master race types said was the sort of game that would NEVER be on console....well you know how that turned out.
Same goes for Stardew Valley, Kerbal Space Program, World of Tanks or War Thunder.
Games cost money to make, and console players are in general more willing to spend money (and not just during sales) than the "I only buy games during steam sales" types.