Comment by PaulDavisThe1st

Comment by PaulDavisThe1st 5 days ago

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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, and wrote one of the APIs (JACK) that it implements (pretty well, too!).

but pipewire is an order of magnitude more complex than pulseaudio.

herewulf 5 days ago

As 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 5 days ago

    As 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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