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Does anyone know where I could find a list of what distros are already using Pipewire by default?

by ufo 5y ago

bloopernova 5y ago
This doesn't answer your specific question, sorry, but Fedora 35 uses it by default.
- petepete 5y ago
  It's worked flawlessly for me on F35. The one thing I've had to amend is that I need to pass an extra flag to Slack to allow me to share my screen. I think that's a Slack thing more than Pipewire though.
  - bloopernova 5y ago
    That's been my experience on Fedora too, it's worked great out of the box. With multiple cards too! USB webcam, a Jabra USB headset adapter, motherboard sound card, the Acer screen over DisplayPort, and the Schiit USB DAC.
  - bavell 5y ago
    On Arch, just installed the package and everything worked OOTB. Pretty amazing!
    - petepete 5y ago
      Ah, perhaps it's because I installed Slack via Flatpak instead of RPM. Will give that a go.
- ufo 5y ago
  I kind of answers, but also doesn't. I already use Fedora and was wondering if there are any other distros that made the jump :)
- npteljes 5y ago
  Indeed, Fedora uses it from 34. As a user, I had no idea. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/DefaultPipeWire https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/DefaultPipeWire
severine 5y ago
From https://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Features/Getting-Ready-for-PipeWire https://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Features/Getting-Ready... : The easiest way to try PipeWire is to install Fedora Workstation 35 in Boxes or VirtualBox. Instructions for working from source code are available online, but are only recommended for the hardy. Even other distributions that have PipeWire in their repositories generally have a wiki with distro-specific instructions. Arch Linux, Debian, and Gentoo are among the distros with PipeWire configuration wikis, although you may find they suffer from a lack of current information. Also https://old.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/m1t65m/which_distro_provides_out_of_box_pipewire/ https://old.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/m1t65m/which_...
rascul 5y ago
openSUSE Tumbleweed uses it by default since some point last year. I'm not sure if/when Leap has or will make the switch.
jillesvangurp 5y ago
Manjaro and arch apparently depending on whether you use X or Wayland. I was trying to figure out why screen sharing was not working last week and the answer was something pipewire is probably foobarred. Kind of a thing where the answer to "why is X not working" always seems to boil down to following some convoluted process involving the installation of multiple obscure packages, dealing with their arcane configuration files, etc. I half got there in the end. I seem to able to share my desktop via google meets at least. No luck with the discord snap. Though that may have as much to do with pipewire as with snap. It seems anything using wayland would need to rely on pipewire for a few features; including sharing your screen. At least that is my understanding.
p_l 5y ago
NixOS had it as an option for over a year now. (NixOS not really doing defaults the same way as other distros, pulseaudio is similarly enabled IIRC)
- Filligree 5y ago
  `sound.enable` currently enables pulseaudio. If you want to use pipewire, you're supposed to set sound.enable to false, which will disable pulseaudio. If you leave it enabled, you'll likely get both. Which doesn't necessarily break anything, assuming your devices can handle at least two audio streams. Or just leave sound.enable as it is, and eventually it'll get repurposed for pipewire.

Does anyone know where I could find a list of what distros are already using Pipewire by default?

by ufo 5y ago

Does anyone know where I could find a list of what distros are already using Pipewire by default?

bloopernova 5y ago

This doesn't answer your specific question, sorry, but Fedora 35 uses it by default.

petepete 5y ago
It's worked flawlessly for me on F35. The one thing I've had to amend is that I need to pass an extra flag to Slack to allow me to share my screen. I think that's a Slack thing more than Pipewire though.
- bloopernova 5y ago
  That's been my experience on Fedora too, it's worked great out of the box. With multiple cards too! USB webcam, a Jabra USB headset adapter, motherboard sound card, the Acer screen over DisplayPort, and the Schiit USB DAC.
- bavell 5y ago
  On Arch, just installed the package and everything worked OOTB. Pretty amazing!
  - petepete 5y ago
    Ah, perhaps it's because I installed Slack via Flatpak instead of RPM. Will give that a go.
ufo 5y ago
I kind of answers, but also doesn't. I already use Fedora and was wondering if there are any other distros that made the jump :)
npteljes 5y ago
Indeed, Fedora uses it from 34. As a user, I had no idea. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/DefaultPipeWire https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/DefaultPipeWire

severine 5y ago

From https://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Features/Getting-Ready-for-PipeWire https://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Features/Getting-Ready... : The easiest way to try PipeWire is to install Fedora Workstation 35 in Boxes or VirtualBox. Instructions for working from source code are available online, but are only recommended for the hardy. Even other distributions that have PipeWire in their repositories generally have a wiki with distro-specific instructions. Arch Linux, Debian, and Gentoo are among the distros with PipeWire configuration wikis, although you may find they suffer from a lack of current information. Also https://old.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/m1t65m/which_distro_provides_out_of_box_pipewire/ https://old.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/m1t65m/which_...

rascul 5y ago

openSUSE Tumbleweed uses it by default since some point last year. I'm not sure if/when Leap has or will make the switch.

jillesvangurp 5y ago

Manjaro and arch apparently depending on whether you use X or Wayland. I was trying to figure out why screen sharing was not working last week and the answer was something pipewire is probably foobarred. Kind of a thing where the answer to "why is X not working" always seems to boil down to following some convoluted process involving the installation of multiple obscure packages, dealing with their arcane configuration files, etc. I half got there in the end. I seem to able to share my desktop via google meets at least. No luck with the discord snap. Though that may have as much to do with pipewire as with snap. It seems anything using wayland would need to rely on pipewire for a few features; including sharing your screen. At least that is my understanding.

p_l 5y ago

NixOS had it as an option for over a year now. (NixOS not really doing defaults the same way as other distros, pulseaudio is similarly enabled IIRC)

Filligree 5y ago
`sound.enable` currently enables pulseaudio. If you want to use pipewire, you're supposed to set sound.enable to false, which will disable pulseaudio. If you leave it enabled, you'll likely get both. Which doesn't necessarily break anything, assuming your devices can handle at least two audio streams. Or just leave sound.enable as it is, and eventually it'll get repurposed for pipewire.