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This is exactly the kind of maintenance issue that makes me occasionally hate using Ubuntu.

Oh look! My flash player suddenly stopped working! I get to do six hours of forum combing and troubleshooting, whoppee!

Yeah. Ubuntu marketing says, We make Linux Easy. And mostly this is true. But here, they opted for using the latest and greatest technology (pulse) rather than old and known to work everywhere (alsa) because of developer pressure, in a supposedly LTS version that huge numbers of people are going to use.

I view this is one of the greatest, if not the greatest, ubuntu screwup.

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