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anyone who thinks that pipewire - pipewire! - is "a simple solution" understands nothing about pipewire. don't get me wrong, i use pipewire all day every day,
by PaulDavisThe1st 9mo ago
anyone who thinks that pipewire - pipewire! - is "a simple solution" understands nothing about pipewire.
don't get me wrong, i use pipewire all day every day, and wrote one of the APIs (JACK) that it implements (pretty well, too!).
but pipewire is an order of magnitude more complex than pulseaudio.
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- herewulf 9mo agoAs an end user hand assembling desktop services on non-Systemd distros (Artix, Devuan, Gentoo, Guix) over the years, and thus had no concern about APIs, Pipewire just works and PulseAudio gave endless trouble. My 0.02 bits.
- account42 9mo agoAs another user on Gentoo, pipewire is a never ending pain in the ass full of "magic" behavior and weird bugs. I mostly skipped pulse though so it may be simple in comparison to that.
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