Classic PulseAudio or the new Pipewire? What's the difference? What's the buzz about Pipewire? Learn in this explainer.
  • umbrella@lemmy.ml
    52·
    9 months ago

    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.

    • Rustmilian@lemmy.worldEnglish
      71·
      9 months ago

      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.

    • lengau@midwest.social
      5·
      9 months ago

      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.

      • umbrella@lemmy.ml
        1·
        9 months ago

        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.