> He created PulseAudio and Avahi. Neither of those are reliable, stable pieces of software
They weren't when they were first created, but since they became mainstream and other people joined their teams, I've found them to be just as stable* and far more featureful than the things they replaced
* not perfect, just not worse than what came before
They're still not. For instance, the latest PulseAudio release includes a patch that contained incomplete changes that broke various resamplers but was included anyway. It'll be reverted in the next major release which will include other half-baked changes. (It turns out that wasn't even the cause of the crashes I was experiencing; even before that patch it was broken in a way that meant just having the official volume control application open caused random crashes. I think anyway - unfortunately, all the variable names are misleading and the comments non-existent, so it's impossible to be sure what the code's meant to do.)
They weren't when they were first created, but since they became mainstream and other people joined their teams, I've found them to be just as stable* and far more featureful than the things they replaced
* not perfect, just not worse than what came before