Well, pulseaudio is still pretty crap as far as I'm concerned. After an update last week Spotify won't work anymore and the sound in Firefox is glitchy. I haven't taken the time to investigate what caused that exactly, and I'm not exactly looking forward to it.
Not that I was a huge fan of ALSA either. It always felt a bit over-engineered for my taste. I can understand needing something like that if you want to make professional audio equipment with the Linux kernel but for my desktop use case OSS has always worked just fine for me and it didn't randomly break after an update.
As for systemd, it's bearable and it mostly does what it's supposed to do, but it still feels a bit unnecessary and its security track record is not stellar so far. I prefer the simplicity of the BSD init personally.
Not that I was a huge fan of ALSA either. It always felt a bit over-engineered for my taste. I can understand needing something like that if you want to make professional audio equipment with the Linux kernel but for my desktop use case OSS has always worked just fine for me and it didn't randomly break after an update.
As for systemd, it's bearable and it mostly does what it's supposed to do, but it still feels a bit unnecessary and its security track record is not stellar so far. I prefer the simplicity of the BSD init personally.