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Re:Gaming on Wayland by AshamedCaptain on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @07:05PM (#29559999)
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.

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Re:Gaming on Wayland by peoplefromibiza on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @07:10PM (#29560054)
> 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.

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Re:Gaming on Wayland by GhettoComputers on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @07:56PM (#29560531)
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.
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