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Re:The Linux audio stack demystified (and more) by oleg_antonyan on Tuesday July 23, 2024 @03:07AM (#41043382)
PipeWire is drop-in replacement for pshshaudio with additional features (while preserving pshsh part sometimes). Only difference is 15 years ago half of the problems with sound were fixed by uninstalling pulseaudio as it was in early stages full of bugs but still pushed to many distros similar to systemd. Today's pipewire is as easy as uninstalling pulseaudio, installing pipewire, and most of the times it will continue working
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Re:The Linux audio stack demystified (and more) by Cloudef on Tuesday July 23, 2024 @03:37AM (#41043587)
To be fair. Pulseaudio in early days exposed tons of audio driver bugs that were since then fixed. Bluetooth audio was barely working back then. Now bluetooth works so well that it makes other operating systems look bad.
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Re:The Linux audio stack demystified (and more) by thriftwy on Tuesday July 23, 2024 @08:01AM (#41045073)
Pulseaudio had a great GUI mixer/settings app. That does not seem to come with pipewire and tries to install PA when explicitly installed.
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