Make ALSA default audio driver on supported platforms #878
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The jack driver has a potential side-effect of starting a new server. ALSA does not have such side-effects and therefore makes a better default audio driver.
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As the jack driver has a potential side-effect of starting a new server, it's not the ideal default audio driver.
ALSA does not have such side-effects and is available on many (if not all) platforms that support it. It therefore makes a better default audio driver. And having ALSA as default also makes audio and midi driver order more consistent (ALSA is already the default MIDI driver on supported platforms).
This PR is the (much) smaller solution to the problem explained in #838, that led to #843.