At first I thought the PPA version was the answer, as audio was working and no more assertion failures were being announced.
However, without running any audio apps (but I did enable system sounds in order to verify that audio was working), in fact the only app I have open is gnome-terminal but not even running any command except top or htop, pulseaudio consumes between 46-57% CPU as reported by top and 70-100% as reported by htop.
This results in a system where the mouse pointer moves in real time with my actions, but apps and every other aspect of the desktop UE are very slow to respond, including mouse clicks.
At first I thought the PPA version was the answer, as audio was working and no more assertion failures were being announced.
However, without running any audio apps (but I did enable system sounds in order to verify that audio was working), in fact the only app I have open is gnome-terminal but not even running any command except top or htop, pulseaudio consumes between 46-57% CPU as reported by top and 70-100% as reported by htop.
This results in a system where the mouse pointer moves in real time with my actions, but apps and every other aspect of the desktop UE are very slow to respond, including mouse clicks.