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Re:X.org Hit by New Security Vulnerabilities – Two Date Back... by nonrandomstring on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @03:34AM (#37762021)
Too late returning to this thread, but thanks!

On reflection, almost all of my problems are to do with audio; pipewire, and it's interaction with pulse, alsa, jack and so on - being a 0.1% "pro-audio" user I probably have needs that the average Wayland user doesn't see.

It will get better and I will try again.

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Re:X.org Hit by New Security Vulnerabilities – Two Date Back... by boudin on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @04:18AM (#37762333)
You can run a wayland session without the pipewire audio stack (pipewire will still be installed, but for the video media sessions).

The pipewire audio stack replaces pulse and jack, it doesn't play well with Jack and Pulse running on the side. It does work well but from what I understand the pro audio use cases, mainly low latency will be a focus for the version 1.0: https://www.phoronix.com/news/PipeWire-1.0-Release-Plan

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Re:X.org Hit by New Security Vulnerabilities – Two Date Back... by kaba0 on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @05:27AM (#37762810)
What does wayland have to do with audio?
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Re:X.org Hit by New Security Vulnerabilities – Two Date Back... by Cheeeetah on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @06:36AM (#37763218)
Screen sharing needs pipewire. My personal experience with pipewire is fine through, just lack good documents, and finding required softwares for screen sharing itself can puzzle quite some people, so far from easy-to-use.
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