I'm posting this in a number of places to try and get some idea of ALSA/JACK
usage, so I'd be grateful for responses.
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/JZVV7K9
Linux user survey
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- KVRAF
- 5715 posts since 5 Aug, 2006 from UK - The Mudway Towns
It wasn't me! (well, actually, it probably was) - apparently no longer an 'elderly', now a 'senior'! Is that promotion?
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 5715 posts since 5 Aug, 2006 from UK - The Mudway Towns
OK results - Survey monkey only lets you see 100 replies, unless you pay per additional response 
I've had to make the following adjustments to the figures.
One respondent entered 'both' in the 'other' category so I've subtracted them
from that and added them in the 'either' group.
Another respondent gave hardware names for both source and destination, so I
think they rather missed the point, and I took them out of the totals.
In order to then get a nice easy figure of 100, I asked a friend who hadn't
taken part, and he came down firmly in the 'either' camp.
There was a non respondent on the MIDI question so I've lumped them in with the
'other' crowd as a 'no MIDI'.
So we have:
Audio
ALSA 6%
JACK 74%
Either 18%
Other 2% (both referring to Alsa, Jack and Pulse)
MIDI
ALSA 23%
JACK 26%
Either 44%
Other 7% ( 6 didn't use MIDI and the 7th mentioned a2j)
From this I think we can see that direct use of ALSA is far from dead yet,
and for MIDI it's neck and neck with jack. I hope this will be useful to all
the Linux audio devs out there.
If I can remember, I might try this again in a years time.
I've had to make the following adjustments to the figures.
One respondent entered 'both' in the 'other' category so I've subtracted them
from that and added them in the 'either' group.
Another respondent gave hardware names for both source and destination, so I
think they rather missed the point, and I took them out of the totals.
In order to then get a nice easy figure of 100, I asked a friend who hadn't
taken part, and he came down firmly in the 'either' camp.
There was a non respondent on the MIDI question so I've lumped them in with the
'other' crowd as a 'no MIDI'.
So we have:
Audio
ALSA 6%
JACK 74%
Either 18%
Other 2% (both referring to Alsa, Jack and Pulse)
MIDI
ALSA 23%
JACK 26%
Either 44%
Other 7% ( 6 didn't use MIDI and the 7th mentioned a2j)
From this I think we can see that direct use of ALSA is far from dead yet,
and for MIDI it's neck and neck with jack. I hope this will be useful to all
the Linux audio devs out there.
If I can remember, I might try this again in a years time.
It wasn't me! (well, actually, it probably was) - apparently no longer an 'elderly', now a 'senior'! Is that promotion?