How Do I Remove Pulseaudio from Linux?
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How do I get rid of Pulseaudio?

You can disable PulseAudio for the current user or all users on a machine. To stop the daemon, do the following: Note: PulseAudio restarts automatically when you restart you machine, but you can prevent this by navigating to System > Preferences > Startup Applications and disabling the PulseAudio Sound System.

How do I switch from Pulseaudio to ALSA?

How to Properly Replace Pulseaudio with ALSA on Crunchbang Linux and Debian Squeeze

  1. Remove all pulseaudio packages:
  2. Get rid of the /etc/asound.conf file. I have renamed it, in case I want to install Pulseaudio once again and reuse it:
  3. Delete the pulseaudio directories from the user’s home:
  4. Install ALSA:
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