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+1 for pipewire it's a monument on how things should be done, without breaking anyone's workflow. edit: I really want to use Wayland, it is so much better for

+1 for pipewire it's a monument on how things should be done, without breaking anyone's workflow. edit: I really want to use Wayland, it is so much better for so many things, it looks better, font rendering is better, scaling is better, but it introduces new bugs that really are a no-go in my day to day usage, for example sometimes copy&paste shortcuts don't work. I'm sure it's the fact that I use KDE and support is not top notch, but I have no such problems on X.org. I would really love to see Wayland succeed, but how long is it gonna take?

AshamedCaptain 5y ago
Yes, I am very positively surprised. I always though PulseAudio was growing to be one of these "too big to rewrite" projects. And PipeWire started with a premise that was very off-putting to me ("The PulseAudio of Video"). But I was tired of filing PulseAudio bugs (e.g. HFP support which never went anywhere), so I decided to try. Not only PipeWire turned out to be a purely drop-in replacement (not a single feature broke, and Bluetooth support started working correctly), but I immediately gained new power-user friendly features even while keeping the same clients! Like the ability to choose the codec used for A2DP. And then the small improvements started trickling in, such as absolute volume support in headsets. The stupid PA limitation of only being able to configure the 1st ALSA mixer element. And so on and so forth.
- peoplefromibiza 5y ago
  > and Bluetooth support started working correctly) For me it was mainly this! My Bluetooth headphones kept disconnecting randomly and the microphone never worked properly, no matter how many conf tweaks I tried. I installed pipewire in anger, expecting nothing and it magically solved every issue. Yes, my headphones are not expensive devices, but looks like that wasn't the problem, pulseaudio was! I sent them some money out of happiness and now I am lobbying for it at work.
  - GhettoComputers 5y ago
    That was truly a killer feature. Sadly I have 2 similar pairs and one I cannot change the audio quality on sadly, but wow it really works seamlessly to replace pulseaudio.

AshamedCaptain 5y ago

Yes, I am very positively surprised. I always though PulseAudio was growing to be one of these "too big to rewrite" projects. And PipeWire started with a premise that was very off-putting to me ("The PulseAudio of Video"). But I was tired of filing PulseAudio bugs (e.g. HFP support which never went anywhere), so I decided to try. Not only PipeWire turned out to be a purely drop-in replacement (not a single feature broke, and Bluetooth support started working correctly), but I immediately gained new power-user friendly features even while keeping the same clients! Like the ability to choose the codec used for A2DP. And then the small improvements started trickling in, such as absolute volume support in headsets. The stupid PA limitation of only being able to configure the 1st ALSA mixer element. And so on and so forth.

peoplefromibiza 5y ago
> and Bluetooth support started working correctly) For me it was mainly this! My Bluetooth headphones kept disconnecting randomly and the microphone never worked properly, no matter how many conf tweaks I tried. I installed pipewire in anger, expecting nothing and it magically solved every issue. Yes, my headphones are not expensive devices, but looks like that wasn't the problem, pulseaudio was! I sent them some money out of happiness and now I am lobbying for it at work.
- GhettoComputers 5y ago
  That was truly a killer feature. Sadly I have 2 similar pairs and one I cannot change the audio quality on sadly, but wow it really works seamlessly to replace pulseaudio.