With PulseAudio, I have 1 singular feature that makes most people wow:
When I plug in any new audio device, whatever I'm playing/recording automatically sinks to the most recent device. Seamlessly. So if I'm on mail.google.com and a GVoice call comes in, I can take the call, and during the call, plug in my USB headset.
It just works.
Mac can't do that. Windows can't do that. Linux/PulseAudio can. And that kicks ass.
When I plug in any new audio device, whatever I'm playing/recording automatically sinks to the most recent device. Seamlessly. So if I'm on mail.google.com and a GVoice call comes in, I can take the call, and during the call, plug in my USB headset.
It just works.
Mac can't do that. Windows can't do that. Linux/PulseAudio can. And that kicks ass.