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I’d love to try it out, but for the time being I’m running Ubuntu (for work needs) and there doesn’t seem to be any trivial/non-invasive ways to get PipeWire to
by josteink 5y ago
I’d love to try it out, but for the time being I’m running Ubuntu (for work needs) and there doesn’t seem to be any trivial/non-invasive ways to get PipeWire to run on a regular Ubuntu desktop install.
Maybe it makes it to next LTS as an apt-gettable option? I’ll keep my hopes up :)
- jabl 5y agoLast I checked, they are seriously investigating switching to pipewire for the upcoming 21.10 release.
- marcodiego 5y agoUbuntu has been burned by adopting pulseaudio too early. I've had many problems in 2008 and still have some today. They will probably be more conservative when switching this time.
- jeroenhd 5y agoI don't know about any LTS versions, but 21.04 has pipewire in the standard repo. I expect PW to be in the 22.04 LTS based on that, but I don't expect it to be the default any time soon. This PPA [0] works fine for me in 21.04 to get the latest version. Support for the PPA seems to go back to Bionic, so you should be able to use it on recent LTS versions of Ubuntu as well. The only annoying part of the whole process is that the migration requires running a bunch of commands to stop and mask PulseAudio and to enable pipewire. This guide [1] worked great for me. [0]: https://launchpad.net/~pipewire-debian/+archive/ubuntu/pipewire-upstream https://launchpad.net/~pipewire-debian/+archive/ubuntu/pipew... [1]: https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2021/05/enable-pipewire-audio-service-ubuntu-21-04/ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2021/05/enable-pipewire...
- josteink 5y agoI'll be damned. That guide actually worked for me. Thanks for the heads up :)