Pipewire vs PulseAudio: What’s the Difference?

@petsoi@discuss.tchncs.de · 1Y

Pipewire vs PulseAudio: What’s the Difference?

☂️- · edit-2 1Y

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 · edit-2 1Y

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.

jaxxed · 1Y

And it was the X devs who made the choice.

@lengau@midwest.social · 1Y

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.

☂️- · 1Y

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.