petsoi@discuss.tchncs.de to Linux · 10 months agoPipewire vs PulseAudio: What's the Difference?itsfoss.comexternal-linkmessage-square83fedilinkarrow-up1211arrow-down15cross-posted to: linuxcafe@lemmy.world
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minus-squareumbrellalinkfedilinkarrow-up62·edit-210 months agopipewire simply eliminated all the quirks from my use case. the transition was annoying, but i don’t even think about how bad linux audio used to be anymore. wish the transition to wayland was going this well.
minus-squareRustmilian@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·edit-210 months agoWith Wayland it was either break everything and improve, progress, and innovate over time with something actually maintainable & expandable, Or… make x11\Xorg 2.0 and have to rewrite the entire stack yet again in only a few years.
minus-squarejaxxed@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up13arrow-down1·10 months agoAnd it was the X devs who made the choice.
minus-squarelengau@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up5·10 months agoThe transition for me was “install Pipewire and its pulseaudio compatibility package, remove pulseaudio, reboot.” There are a couple of quirks (updating Apparmor rules makes KDE think I’ve reattached all my audio devices), but it’s mostly pretty smooth.
minus-squareumbrellalinkfedilinkarrow-up1·10 months agoI waited for canonical to enable it by default. The annoying part for me was undoing the workarounds PulseAudio needed to do what I wanted.
pipewire simply eliminated all the quirks from my use case.
the transition was annoying, but i don’t even think about how bad linux audio used to be anymore.
wish the transition to wayland was going this well.
With Wayland it was either break everything and improve, progress, and innovate over time with something actually maintainable & expandable,
Or… make x11\Xorg 2.0 and have to rewrite the entire stack yet again in only a few years.
And it was the X devs who made the choice.
The transition for me was “install Pipewire and its pulseaudio compatibility package, remove pulseaudio, reboot.”
There are a couple of quirks (updating Apparmor rules makes KDE think I’ve reattached all my audio devices), but it’s mostly pretty smooth.
I waited for canonical to enable it by default. The annoying part for me was undoing the workarounds PulseAudio needed to do what I wanted.