Re: Tragic State of FreeBSD Audio/Sound

Den Wed, 22 Jul 2026 01:23:40 +0200
skrev vermaden <[email protected]>:

> As I said earlier - I do not remember exactly when the fuckup
> happened - I would gladly still use 13.x line ... but its EoL
> unfortunately ... the 14.x is my only choice now ... and its already
> broken as fuck.

If it's possible for you, you could run 13 even though it is not
supported.

Myself, I'd rather run something that works than something supported.
That's why I rarely upgrade anything. Basically when drivers work,
the os stays at that version. Same for other software, as long as there's
no real improvements (to me, that is), I do not upgrade. 

Far too often I too find upgrading causes more harm than happiness,
either something being broken, something being changed for the worse,
or software that made me select an os being ripped out from the os
distribution.

One quite current example involving both FreeBSD (ports) and audio
is the sfizz port being updated to a version where the plugins are not
included anymore and sfizz-ui which does includes the plugins are not
to be found in ports.


Regards
-- 
Eivind Nicolay Evensen