petsoi@discuss.tchncs.de to Linux@lemmy.ml • 7 months agoPipewire vs PulseAudio: What's the Difference?external-linkmessage-square12 fedilinkarrow-up180
arrow-up180external-linkPipewire vs PulseAudio: What's the Difference?petsoi@discuss.tchncs.de to Linux@lemmy.ml • 7 months agomessage-square12 Commentsfedilink
minus-squareumbrella@lemmy.mlhexbear19·edit-27 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. linkfedilink
minus-squarelengau@midwest.socialhexbear3·7 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. linkfedilink
minus-squareumbrella@lemmy.mlhexbear1·7 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. linkfedilink
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.
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.