I hate Ubuntu >:(

I can’t even play a .wav file in Audacity anymore without it skipping constantly, on a 2 GHz machine with 2 GiB of memory. Works fine in Windows. I find it very hard to believe that anyone has ever used Ubuntu to produce music.

So if Pd is running, Nautilus and Totem refuse to play any sound, but if Totem is playing sound, Pd refuses to play sound.  Also, running Pd apparently causes Firefox to lock up.

Neither produces any error messages or explanation, of course.

Trying to run it through padsp is even better, with glitches and stuttering galore.

I thought PulseAudio was supposed to fix Linux sound, not make it worse.