petsoi@discuss.tchncs.de to Linux@lemmy.ml · 7 months agoPipewire vs PulseAudio: What's the Difference?itsfoss.comexternal-linkmessage-square81fedilinkarrow-up1211arrow-down15
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minus-squareRustmilian@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·edit-27 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-down1·7 months agoAnd it was the X devs who made the choice.
minus-squarelengau@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up5·7 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.
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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.
Removed by mod